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“In terms of contribution given by Australian tourist, it reached 28 percent, it’s big enough,” said the Head of BPS Bali, Panusunan Siregar. Panusunan added that based on previous experience the visit of Australian tourists would usually decrease again in February. Final data could only be confirmed next month. He was

optimistic that the decline rate would not be much different than in previous years.

He was responding to specula-tion that the execution of the Bali Nine duo would have an impact on the Australian tourist visit to Bali. This was in the face of comments by the Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop and Australian Prime

Minister Tony Abbott calling for a boycott of Indonesia, including Bali.

“Every February, Australian tourists tend to decrease compared to January. So that’s why I want to know how the actual figures of February will look like. If it shows a mediocre decline, it suggests no impact. From the point of view

of the people, they actually do not seem care about the ban,” he explained.

Overall, foreign tourist ar-rivals in Bali reached 301,748 people in January. This number represented an increase of 8.05 percent compared to last year. A total of 10 countries contributed significant numbers of travelers to Bali, namely Australia, China, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, the UK, the USA, Taiwan and India.

“Of these 10 countries, com-pared to the previous year, India

experienced the greatest increase namely 28.65 percent going from 5,678 to 7,305 travelers. Malay-sia showed the highest decrease 11.80 percent going from 15,656 people to 13,809 people,” he said. (kmb32)

Tourists spend time at Tanjung Benoa Beach

recently. Australian tour-ists are still ranked first

in terms of number of ar-rivals in Bali. The Central Statistics Agency (BPS)

of Bali noted that Austra-lian tourist visit reached

85,059 people in January.

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Australians still dominates tourist visitors to Bali

DENPASAR - Australian tourists are still ranked first in terms of number of arrivals in Bali. The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of Bali noted that Australian tourist visit reached 85,059 people in January. This number increased by 19.32 percent over January 2014 when 71,288 Aus-tralians came. At the same time, the number represented fewer people compared to December 2014 when 96,854 people came from Australia.

NEW YORK — Leonardo Di-Caprio is partnering with Netflix for a series of documentaries he will produce for the streaming service.

Netflix announced Wednesday that DiCaprio and his production company, Appian Way, have signed a first-look deal with Netflix for nonfiction proj-ects. The company says DiCaprio

and Netflix will seek to develop and acquire documentaries and docuseries “with partial focus on environmental and conservation themes.”

DiCaprio teamed with Netflix last year to release the Oscar-nom-inated documentary “Virunga.” In a statement, DiCaprio said “Virunga” ‘’sparked a shared vision” between

him and the streaming service.The deal adds to a growing stable

of Hollywood talent Netflix has lured to its expanding original film operations. Along with an earlier deal with Adam Sandler, Netflix recently acquired “Beasts of No Na-tion” by “True Detective” director Cary Fukunaga. (ap)

Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures said Wednesday the “Die Hard” star will star opposite Elizabeth Marvel in the story of a murderous fan united with her beloved romance novelist.

William Goldman has once again adapted the book. His previous film adaptation, based on Stephen King’s celebrated novel, was di-rected by Rob Reiner and released in 1990, starring James Caan and Kathy Bates, who won an Academy Award.

Dates and a theater will be an-

nounced later.The action takes place in a

lonely, snow-encased town. While driving on an icy road, novelist Paul Sheldon skids, crashes and is pinned in his car, with his new manuscript tucked away in his nearby briefcase.

Annie Wilkes, his so-called No. 1 fan in the world, finds him, frees him from the car and takes him to her home to nurse him back to health. All is fine until she reads the new book in which the author has killed off a heroine named Misery

who has appeared in a string of romances.

Sheldon is faced with his biggest challenge ever — to revive Misery and write another novel. In the process, he must figure out how to outsmart his captor and escape.

The play will be directed by Will Frears.

Marvel’s other Broadway credits include “Picnic” and “Other Desert Cities.”

King hasn’t had much success on Broadway, with his “Carrie” in 1988 considered a legendary flop. (ap)

UNITED NATIONS — Jane Fonda said Wednesday the male power structure that has dominated the world for centuries has been wounded — “but there’s nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast.”

The actress and women’s rights activist spoke in a telephone inter-view ahead of U.N. meetings next week to assess progress toward women’s equality. She said “the most intractable problem that hu-manity faces is the problem of pa-triarchy,” which she partly blames for the rise in terrorism and the destruction of the environment.

She said patriarchy is very en-trenched, which has made it dif-ficult for women fighting for real equality to challenge it, though she says women have made inroads.

Male power is “wounded now but there’s nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, thrashing about, flailing its tail with the barbs on it, and a lot of people are really getting hurt badly,” she said.

Fonda said this challenge to male power has not only had an impact on terrorism and the environment but has affected women demanding equality because “there’s a lot of guys who won’t stand for it.”

“So we have to be constantly reminded of how far we’ve come and how far we still have to go,” she said, and that’s why she will be at the U.N. on March 12 to help launch a campaign by the women’s rights group Equality Now urging all governments to repeal or amend all gender discrimination laws.

Fonda, a longtime supporter of the group, said just over half the laws it highlighted in 1999 have been revised, appealed or amended, but there is no excuse for less than 100 percent.

Changing laws “is a huge step forward” and helps empower vic-tims, she said, but to achieve equal-ity many other things are needed as well.

“You need women elected to office, you need movements in the streets, you need social media, you

need every single form of social protest and speaking truth to power that’s possible,” Fonda said.

And a woman leader must lead “as a woman and not as a man in skirts” who thinks she needs to prove she’s not weak, she said.

Her value “is to bring her wom-an-ness to her leadership style” which means empathy, compassion and “someone whose head and heart are not bifurcated,” she said.

Fonda said it took her a long time to understand what the women’s movement was about and what feminism meant, and she will be fighting for equality for the rest of her life not only with Equality Now but with V-Day, a movement to stop violence against women, and the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential which she founded in 2001.

But Fonda hasn’t given up on acting: She will be starring in director Paolo Sorrentino’s movie “Youth in Venice” with Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel, which will be released this year. And she said she’s gearing up for a second season of the Netflix series “Grace and Frankie” with Lily Tomlin. (ap)

DiCaprio partners with Netflix for series of documentaries

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Bruce Willis to star on Broadway in play of King’s ‘Misery’

NEW YORK — Bruce Willis will make his Broadway debut this fall in a tale of torture and suspense — a stage adaptation of Stephen King’s novel “Misery.”

Jane Fonda says male domination of world has been ‘wounded’ Man United

leaves it late to beat Newcastle 1-0 in EPL

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EvEry Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is con-sidered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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Aficionados of Japanese delights will love the ‘Sushi & Sashimi Experience,’ which takes place every Thursday evening from 6.30 pm at ‘KO Restaurant, Teppa-nyaki and Cocktail Lounge. Here, diners can relish a fabulous spread, featuring 15 different varieties of colourful sushi and sashimi, as well as innovative rolls, makis and niguiris, freshly prepared by the Master Chef at the sushi counter. This mouth-watering experience is priced at Rp 480,000++ per person including soft drinks and juices, or Rp 730.000++ per person including free flow sake cocktails or house wines, or Rp 930.000++ per person including free flow sake cocktails, house wines, and hot or cold sake. Rp 190.000++ for children under 12 years old.

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New dining delights at InterContinental Bali

JIMBArAN - InterContinental Bali resort is pleased to introduce some exciting new food & beverage promotions at three of the resort’s best-known restaurants: KO restaurant, Teppanyaki and Cocktail Lounge, Bella Cucina, and Jimbaran Gardens.

dining venue – KO Restaurant, Tep-panyaki and Cocktail Lounge has long been hailed one of Bali’s best Japanese restaurants, renowned for its authentic, fresh cuisine. Balinese architecture and Japanese aesthetics combine to create a contemporary dining environment en-hanced by the use of bold colours, textured effects, open-air walkways and enchanting Japanese gardens. KO rests within its own dedicated wing, with two entrances, mak-ing it easily accessible to both in-house and outside guests.

Meanwhile, every Friday from 6.30 pm at ‘Bella – the Resort’s signature Italian fine-dining restaurant – guests and visitors can enjoy the ‘Il Mercato’ experience, fea-turing Italian-style fresh market produce. Diners are invited to walk through a

themed mini-market and view a tempting variety of edible delights ranging from salads and vegetables to cold cuts, pastas, seafood, meat, and a large selection of desserts, before choosing what they would like for dinner and placing their orders. Each meal will be then be prepared in accordance with the Chef’s recipes of the day and enjoyed to the classical strains of the Quartet Band. This very special promo-tion is priced at Rp 560.000++ per person including free flow soft drinks and juices, or Rp 740.000++ per person including free flow soft drinks, juices, house wines, and selected cocktails. Rp 225.000++ for children under 12 years old.

Bella Cucina, meaning ‘beautiful kitchen,’ is renowned for its authentic Italian cuisine, and headed-up by an Italian

Executive Chef passionate about classic Italian recipes and regional specialties, created here with modern presentation and innovative twists. The restaurant comprises an opulent indoor dining room with a lively open-kitchen concept, the private Surya dining room, and a charming outdoor terrace extending to tropical gardens.

Finally, the ‘Jimbaran Seafood Night’ takes place every Sunday evening from 6.30 pm. For this promotion, the chefs at the Resort’s ‘Jimbaran Gardens’ restaurant will prepare and grill the catch of the day, a fresh seafood feast, which can be enjoyed along with a performance of the traditional fisherman’s dance. The dance depicts the daily life and work of a fisherman, evident in every graceful movement of the dancer’s body and hands, re-enacting activities such as rowing and the casting of the nets. The Jimbaran Seafood Night is priced at Rp 520.000++ per person including free flow soft drinks and juices, or Rp 720.000++ per person including free flow soft drinks, juices, house wines, and selected cocktails. Rp 225.000++ for children under 12 years old.

Located beside the Resort’s Main Pool, and incorporating indoor and outdoor dining options, Jimbaran Gardens offers a relaxed alfresco seaside setting, with casual all-day dining accompanied by stunning views across the beach and Jimbaran Bay. The restaurant is housed in a traditional, open-sided Balinese-style dining pavil-ion and gently cooled by sea breezes. Alternatively, two elevated ‘Bale Bengong’ daydreaming pavilions offer privacy for families and groups.

One of the lands owned by the briber of the judge of the Constitutional Court Akil Mochtar is located along the Campuan River reaching approximately two hectares. Nevertheless, it has indeed become the target of tourist accommoda-tion in Ubud since long time ago. So far, many investors are still allegedly attempt to make the Campuan River area the target of money laun-dering.

As observation made on Wednesday (Mar. 4), dozens of hotels and villas were seen to be in a row in the west and the east of Campuan River. Only in the middle part denoting the Campuhan Hill was still left as a gorgeous green space. So,

the row of the accommodation along the river bank was specifically designed to enjoy the beauty of the Campuan River flow and green hills.

“These hotels and villas have been long es-tablished. We just preserve the Campuan Hill as tourist attraction, particularly by the community of Ubud in order to be far away from the touch of investment,” said Chairman of the Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) of Gianyar, Tjokorda A. Ichro, Wednesday (Mar. 4).

He added the hotels and villas perched along the region were still predominantly owned by the people of Ubud. However, in keeping with the passage of time, more and more investors

Existence of Bali cattle in Gianyar continues to grow. In 2014, the population of Bali cattle has increased to three hundred heads. Even, the livestock sector in Gianyar places Bali cattle as livestock in the first rank. It is then followed by pigs, chickens, ducks and various other animals.

Bali cattle in Gianyar are developed by means of mating injection. By Artificial Insemination (AI), 35 technical personnel owned by the Gianyar Livestock Agency spreading across the seven subdistricts help the breeding of farmers at nook and cranny of villages. As the record in 2014, the number of Bali cattle population reached 46,861 heads. In contrast to the year 2013, it only amounted to some 46,539 heads.

The increase of cattle population in Gianyar in 2014 occurred due to the presence of the integrated farming system (Simantri) program. Within this program, the county was obliged to support the Simantri by providing a companion of 25 cattle. However, in 2015 the special assistance of cattle was not realized due to the rationalization of re-gional budget of Gianyar.

The cattle imposed with a restriction for the sale to outside the region were raised by 7,232 farmers. In addition, the cattle were also devel-oped by 315 groups in Gianyar. “Group members tend to raise female cows,” said the Head of Gianyar Livestock, Fisheries and Maritime Affairs, I Made Raka, Wednesday (Mar. 4).

Most Bali cattle raised in Gianyar were intended for development or fattening. Their cattle were no longer used to plow paddy field but currently treated very distinctively. They had a pity on using the cattle to plow, but preferred to use tractor because it was more practical.

Raka also recognized if the demand for Bali cattle from outside Bali regions was quite a lot. However, since there was a prohibition and the excellence of Bali cattle, the sales of Bali cattle to the regions outside Bali was restricted. (dar)

Campuan River area

Wanted by people for money laundering practice

Gianyar Ubud tourist area indeed becomes a honey to the world of tourism. It is visible from

millions of travelers making a visit to Ubud each day. On the other hand, this phenomenon also invites high willingness of people to invest in the area. Even, sometimes it leads to the practice of money laundering as committed by Tubagus Chaeri Wardana aka Wawan.

were trying to invest in Ubud area, beyond the region of Campuan River. “When we observe, the land conversion into hotels and villas has rampantly occurred in Ubud, and some of them are established by investors,” he added.

As previously reported, the num-ber of assets owned by the suspect of money laundering, Tubagus Chaeri Wardana aka Wawan in Ubud subdis-trict, Gianyar, had been confiscated by the Corruption Eradication Com-mission. The land assets with nine certificates of ownership as released by the Commission would be used to build a hotel in the Ubud tourist area. Even, to build a hotel, he also acquired the land for the view of his hotel. For this land acquisition,

Wawan directly paid the land in cash to landowners.

In Ubud Wawan has more than two hectares of land, but separated by the streams of Campuan River. To build the tourist accommodation, Wawan has also submitted the permission to Gianyar government. As consequence, the officials of the Gianyar Licens-ing Office became the investigation target of the Commission on January 23, 2014.

As planned, the hotel accommoda-tion to be built by Wawan will use the entry from Jalan Bisma at Subak Se-mujan, Ubud. Precisely, it is adjacent to Villa Bucu View. Meanwhile, in the west of Campuan River, the plantation land and paddy fields will become the view of the hotel. (kmb35)

Bali cattle in GianyarNo longer used to plow, population raises to 300 heads each year

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Balinese cows are seen in the picture

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According to Made Tromat, one of the water sport owners, the congestion is due to the lack of parking space for travelers visit-ing Tanjung Benoa. “Yes, there is no parking lot. Right now, we’re still talking about the problem to the village head,” said the man who id also the Chairman of the Badung Marine

Tourism Association (Gahawis-ri).Meanwhile, the Chief of Tan-jung Benoa Village, Made Wijaya, confirmed that since two days ago, vehicles carrying tourists have been forced to occupy the main road leading to water sport attrac-tion. “Tanjung Benoa no longer has a parking lot, so that we use the road section. The land formerly used for parking space of vehicles, such as buses, has been taken back by its landowner. So, it kindles traffic jam because the narrow road is also used for parking large vehicles,” he said.

While admitting that such con-ditions could potentially tarnish the image of Badung tourism, he said the village could not prohibit the parking of vehicles on roadside because it was needed to provide parking space required by visitors. “We cannot prohibit parking on the street because we are still confused to look for a parking lot for visitors.

DENPASAR - The use of il-licit drugs results in the death of an estimated 40 to 50 people in Indonesia due to consuming drugs every material loss reaches around IDR 48 trillion each year as well. This has led President Jokowi to beat the drums of war against drug trafficking.

Turning to Bali, to the Head of the Bali National Narcotics Agency (BNNP), I Gusti Ketut Budiartha, says that his office does not have clear data on the number of drug-related deaths on the island. Victims’ families don’t share this information so that the precise number is unknown. “The population is hidden and concealed so that we cannot record easily,” he said.

At the same time,, the number

of drug-related criminal cases in Bali fluctuates from year to year. In 2010, police handled 790 cases,

in 2011 (887 cases), in 2012 (866 cases) and in 2013 (842 cases plus 3 cases handled by the BNNP Bali). In 2014 police handled 762 cases plus 1 case from the BNNP Bali.

“Anyone such as private em-ployees, civil servants, police, military, officials, students and others can be afflicted. Without prevention, our generation will lose many people due to the effects of drugs,” he said.

To save the future generation from the hazards of drugs, his of-fice continues to take aggressive preventive measures.

Prevention has been focused on providing school and college

students as well as the general public with the mindset to reject illicit drug use and resist traffick-ing. Efforts also seek to create and educational and work environment free from such drugs as marijuana, crystal meth, ecstasy and heroin. Efforts have also been made to pro-vide rehabilitation for those who had been affected and to intensify regular reporting of drug addicts.

Efforts to combat drug use and addiction have included actions related to the import, production and distribution of drugs. Law enforcement against suspected drug rings has also increased. Ef-forts have also gone to uncover-ing money laundering related to narcotics crimes.

“Necessarily, we must fight it together. Do not be embarrassed to

report if there are family members and relatives having contact with drugs,” said this one-star general.

A university teacher, Dr. I Made Alit Mariana, revealed that in Bali the number of students getting in-volved with drugs reaches around 15-35 percent. “It has been quite high and is a red light,” he added. Alit, who is also Chairman of the LPMP Bali, noted that the shame associated with drugs in the com-munity meant that the data on fa-talities remained hidden. However, if there was shame about having an addicted family member, preven-tion could be surely maximal. “We must drive the shame to prevent it from the beginning. So, it will not be shameful after the incident. Such an effort should we push together,” he said. (rah)

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In recent days, Jalan Pratama, Tajung Benoa has been crowded with traffic jams. Tourist vehicles, are crowded all along the road leading to the sport areas in the region.

Tanjung Benoa has no parking lotMANGUPURA – In recent

days, Jalan Pratama, Tajung Benoa has been crowded with traffic jams. Tourist vehicles, are crowded all along the road leading to the sport areas in the region. The surprising reason for this is that the tour-ist destination in the richest county in Bali no longer has a parking lot.

Data on drug fatalities in Bali hard to collect

If banned, they can divert their visit to another place. If that happens obviously we will lose out, let alone 80 percent of the entrepreneurs are local communities,” he explained.

There were plans to seek to use public land owned by Bali Prov-ince as a parking area. He was opti-mistic that local government would grant the request. “I am optimistic

that the Bali government will pro-vide the land to be managed by society, especially as it concerns the image of Bali,” he said.

He was worried of the results if his party could not find a solution by May. “Just imagine, on normal days there are 150 travelers mak-ing a visit. During high season, it can be multiplied. Without doubt,

the congestion will be getting worse,” he said.

He hoped the regent of Badung and related agencies, namely the Tourism Agency would not keep silent when seeing such condition, and immediately intervene to find solutions to the problems faced by communities in South Badung.

“Hopefully, the regent and

tourism agency can find a solution because if travelers complain about the situation, Badung tourism will automatically be tarnished,” he concluded. (kmb27)

Yet two sombre notes cast shad-ows across the Paris opening: the February 27 death of John Fairch-ild, the American chief editor of the fashion world’s bible, Women’s Wear Daily, between 1960-1997; and the death on Monday of Bettina, a star model of the 1950s.

The first day of the catwalk shows saw the first outing by brand Each x Other, founded by thirtysomething Franco-Swedish duo Ilan Delouis and Jenny Man-nerheim and joined by new designer Masha Gard.

Marine, black and cream domi-nated their collection which drew inspiration from men’s lines in tennis stripes, tailored pants and leather.

“We wanted to show that men’s clothes can be transformed into something else. We give it an al-lure and elegance with femininity,” Delouis explained backstage.

The male side “is part of the code of Each x Other, it’s about the mix, the blend -- our logo is an X, which is the meeting of art, fashion and music,” he added.

Previously, the brand showed its collections in the “Designers Apartment”, a showroom organised by the fashion week’s organising body, the Federation Francaise de la Couture. The space, which will be open for six days from Friday, promotes young stylists.

Paris’s mayor, Anne Hidalgo, also sought to shine the spotlight on upcoming talent by visiting the Duperre School, one of the city’s premiere design institutions. The state-run establishment each year trains 500 students in fashion, tex-tiles and graphic design.

Hidalgo said Paris’ schools were standing up to the stiff competi-tion posed by better-funded rivals Central Saint Martins in London

and Parsons in New York because the French capital managed to “conserve the artistic trade skills related to the luxury sector, such as embroidery and tapestry”.

Responding to a question about New York investing 15 million eu-ros ($17 million) in the city’s fash-ion trade, she said: “If New York is investing so much in fashion today, it’s because its artistic workshops have disappeared.”

Paris, she added, had the good fortune to be home to tuition-free schools that allow young students to learn “not according to their par-ents’ revenues, but really by their own talent and drive”.

Hidalgo was accompanied by two graduates from the school, Bouchra Jarrar, who now has her own fashion house of the same name, and Guillaume Lemiel, de-signer for the brand The Kooples.

Still, Hidalgo acknowledged,

MILAN — The final day of Milan Fashion Show highlights of Armani. Armani, who celebrates 40 years of his fashion brand this year, was a found-ing protagonist of the Milan fashion scene, and has become a global fash-ion watchword by creating enduring looks, with a focus on detailing and elegance, not flash-by trends.

Armani is the fashion world’s ambassador to the world Expo 2015 opening May 1 in Milan, using his renown to promote the event to the fashion crowd. He is currently work-ing on a retrospective exhibit to open on the eve of the world’s fair open-ing, along with a runway show of his greatest hits.

Sometimes Armani comes up with something so new, refreshing and in-ventive that not even he knows what to call it. So it was with a new trouser silhouette that on top resembled a sweeping skirt in the shape of a pair of tulip petals, then melded seamlessly into a tight-fitting pant-leg. They were paired with pretty swing coats, some

decorated crystals, or a sloping high-collar sweater that had the effect of a contemporary casual poncho.

Pants were so much on Armani’s mind that of the more than 80 looks he sent out, fewer than 10 were skirts or dresses. A velvet evening version working a skirt into the trouser was paired with tops of swirling chiffon

AP Photo/Luca Bruno

Models wear creations for Giorgio Armani women’s Fall-Winter 2015-16 collection, part of Milan Fashion Week, unveiled in Milan, Italy, Monday, March 2, 2015.

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A model wears a creation for Etam’s

ready-to-wear fall-win-ter 2015/2016 fashion

collection presented in Paris, France, Tuesday,

March 3, 2015.

Young designers shine at start of Paris Fashion Week

PARIS - Paris Fashion Week on Tuesday unleashed its first day of stilleto- and swagger-filled shows with a nod to young designers coming up to fill the creative ranks. It was the French capital’s turn to reveal its women’s 2015-2016 autumn-winter collections after the shows in New York, London and Milan.

“Paris was kind of slumbering a few years ago, thinking it could live off its legacy as the capital of fashion”.

Milan, London and New York have “worked very, very hard with

professionals, in terms of com-munication, to build their fashion weeks up to a level that concerned us. “We are now not only fighting back but also understanding what our strengths are.” (afp)

Armani creates new winter trousers with tulip flairor cropped jackets, while pants with a cummerbund waistline highlighted the crystal-dotted bustier. The looks were complemented by shimmery, but not metallic, long-fringe shawls.

For Armani, the black evening pant is the season’s must-have. But when the occasion calls for a dress, there were long printed slip dresses with a diagonal band of black velvet sloping down to the hem and an eye-catching strapless chiffon dresses in red or cotton-candy pink with ruffled detailing at the bodice.

Giorgio Armani’s looks for next winter were infused with a gentleness inspired by paintings by Chagall, whose work was shown in a retrospec-tive that closed recently in Milan.

While many runways favored dra-matic geographic lines, Armani chose a softer optical effect, a bleeding of one color into the other that the designer said was a nod to Chagall. The print of choice was a blur or color, giving the effect nearly of an aurora borealis of red, pink, black and gray.

A Chagall work inspired another detail, pretty feminine collars sugges-tive of a French school girl. Rounded or slightly squared, the collars could also be worn alone, as in unattached to a shirt or coat, as an accessory.

“There is a painting by Chagall with one or two women with big white collars,” Armani said. “I was hit by this sense of innocence.” (ap)

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department will not prosecute a white former police officer in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old whose death in Ferguson, Missouri, sparked weeks of protests and ignited an intense national debate over how police treat African-Americans. But the government released a scathing report that faulted the city for racial bias.

The decision Wednesday in the August 9 shooting had been expected, in part because of the high legal standard needed for a federal civil rights prosecution. Former officer Darren Wilson, who has said Brown struck him in the face and reached for his gun during a tussle, also had been cleared by a Missouri grand jury in November and later resigned from the department. The grand jury decision prompted street protests that turned violent.

Federal officials concluded there was no evidence to disprove testimony by Wilson’s, that he feared for his safety, nor was there reliable evidence that Michael Brown had his hands up in surrender when he was shot.

The Brown family lawyer, Benjamin Crump, said the family was not surprised but very disappointed, and one of Brown’s uncles, Charles Ewing, said he believed Wilson was “getting away with it.”

A separate report issued Wednesday said blacks in Ferguson are disproportionately subject to excessive police force, baseless traffic stops and citations for infractions as petty as walking down the middle of the street.

The Justice Department issued more than two dozen recommendations to improve the closely aligned police department and court system, including training officers to de-escalate confrontations and better oversight of its recruiting, hiring and promotion procedures. Federal officials on Wednesday said there were already signs of improvement.

Ferguson Mayor James Knowles III said the city had cooperated with the Justice Department and has made some changes, including a diversity training program for city employees. (ap)

And the pressure on them per-haps has never been stronger fol-lowing the arrest of Gonzalez’s stepfather, Caracas Mayor Antonio Ledezma. One of the most hardline critics of President Nicolas Maduro, Ledezma was hauled away by po-lice for allegedly plotting a coup with the U.S. The opposition calls the charge baseless, saying it is an attempt by Maduro to stamp out dissent and distract attention from an economy unraveling as quickly as is support for the revolution started 16 years ago by the late Hugo Chavez.

Shortly after the mayor’s arrest two weeks ago, attention turned to Izarra and whether family loy-alty would trump ideological zeal. Ledezma’s wife and Gonzalez’s

mother, Mitzy Capriles de Le-dezma, kicked off the speculation by saying her “beloved” son-in-law had resigned from his post in soli-darity with his wife. William Izarra, a retired air force officer and one of Chavez’s chief theorists, then shot back with a tweet saying that he and his son “will remain revolutionaries to the end of our lives.”

Izarra, a normally prolific user of social media, has said almost nothing, only tweeting that he continues working on behalf of the revolution. Repeated attempts by The Associated Press to seek com-ment from the couple through the Tourism Ministry as well as family and friends were unsuccessful.

Gonzalez and Izarra met in 2005 when he was a repeat guest on

“Hello Citizen,” the feisty anti-gov-ernment counterpoint to the “Hello President” program launched by Chavez. Gonzalez, then in her mid-20s, was a journalist on the show when Izarra, then communications minister, was invited on as a sort of Chavista punching bag to defend a new media law making it easier for the government to take critical broadcasters off the air.

A romance, kept secret at first, ensued and about six months later Gonzalez paid a visit to the home of her boss and the show’s popular anchor, Leopoldo Castillo, to tell him a marriage was planned. “We were all in tears,” Castillo recalled. “I felt obligated to let her know she was going to have a very difficult life so she better love him a lot.”

Those difficulties came quickly. In announcing her engagement with an on-air farewell, Gonzalez complained about intolerance from co-workers, said her car tires had been slashed and told of being insulted by complete strangers at a cafe. Government supporters, meanwhile, questioned whether Izarra wasn’t opening the door to a fifth column by marrying into the family of an opposition standard bearer.

The couple and their families have tried to keep the marriage out of the limelight. Ledezma, during the height of anti-Maduro protests he helped lead last year, irritably batted away questions about his relationship with his son-in-law, saying only that when they got to-gether they avoided any discussion of politics. “There’re two grandchil-dren in the middle — nobody wants to sow violence into the heart of a family,” the mayor told The Associ-ated Press. (ap)

Venezuelan mayor’s arrest casts light on unlikely marriage

CARACAS, Venezuela — She was raised by a leader of Venezuela’s opposition and made a name for herself on a popular anti-government TV show. He is the tourism minister and one of the socialist administration’s most passionate defenders. In this deeply polarized nation, where bitter politics often intrude into the most personal of arenas, the marriage of Isabel Gonzalez and Andres Izarra is as improbable as Romeo and Juliet.

US clears officer in Ferguson case, criticizes police force

AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File

FILE - In this Nov. 25, 2014 file photo, police officers watch protesters as smoke fills the streets in Ferguson, Mo. after a grand jury’s decision in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown.

Pantunan valley retains natural scenery of paddy fields which will not be inferior to tourist attrac-tions in other counties. Spreading paddy fields can be seen from the heights. Based on observation of Bali Post, the Pantunan valley is equipped with a number of sup-porting facilities, such as parking lot and concrete path.

Headman of Bangbang, Komang Sudianta, said that all this time the

Pantunan valley had been visited by many travelers. Habitually the travelers were coming by cycling starting at Pantunan valley and went down to wantilan hall of Bangbang. Although visited by quite crowded travelers, he recognized the beauti-ful valley had no management yet.

Sudianta said that after seeing the huge tourism potential of Pantu-nan valley, his party so far had been trying to propose it Bangli Culture

and Tourism Agency to be included as a tourist attraction. In fact, it could not receive an encouraging response. “It has been proposed but there is no follow up,” he said.

As getting no response, his party planned to manage it as a natural tourist attraction of Bang-bang village. He said if it could be transformed into a tourist attrac-tion, the Pantunan valley would be very suitable to be included in

the tour package of Kehen Temple and Kintamani. At Pantunan val-ley, travelers would be served with traditional rice field management activities. Sudianta said that to develop the potential, his party was ready to allocate the village al-location fund (ADD). A number of additional facilities would be built to support the Pantunan valley as a tourist attraction.

Meanwhile, the Chairman of the Bangli House, Ngakan Kutha Parwata, also from Bambang vil-lage, claimed to strongly support the development of Pantunan val-ley into a tourist attraction. More-over, after the implementation of

the new Law on village where the village would get additional fund to finance its own programs implemented all this time. Since Bangli posed a cultural village, the Pantunan valley was expected to be developed based on village tourism concept.

According to Kutha Parwata, to develop an area into a tourist attraction should be started from the village itself. “Pengelipuran village, for instance, was origi-nally developed by the village itself. Other than participation of residents, the development effort by the government is also required,” he said. (ina)

DeNpASAR — Law enforce-ment against money changers is very important to prevent the misuse by irresponsible parties. Proliferation of illegal money changers (KUPVA) will not only be detrimental to foreign travelers, but also damages the image of Bali tourism.

“Not only that, their existence is also prone to be used as a means of money laundering and terrorist financing, drug trafficking, smug-gling disguised up as if sourcing from foreign currency exchange business,” said Chief Representa-tive of Bank Indonesia (BI) for Bali

Region, Dewi Setyowati, Wednes-day (Mar. 4).

She said the money changer was one of the tourism services that contributed to the development of tourism industry in Bali. During its development, some stigmas emerged to the perpetrators of illegal non-bank money changer considered as one of the components disrupting the Bali tourism image. It happened due to the fraud committed by foreign banknote exchangers to a number of foreign travelers.

“This problem should be quickly followed up. We have signed the Principles of Understanding (PPK)

with Bali Police related to the Crime Management Coordination in the field of Payment System and Money Changer,” she said.

He also appealed to the public to use licensed money changer when making transactions. In addition, to the Association of Foreign Ex-change (APVA) was also expected to encourage the illegal traders to apply for a money changer permit to the monetary authority, namely Bank Indonesia, so that the money changer business would not become a bogey and scapegoat that could tarnish the image of Bali tourism.

“Control against the unlicensed

money changer is also an important part to elevate the dignity of the nation by encouraging and sup-porting the efforts to promote the transaction with rupiah,” he said. Such an effort, he added, had been in accordance with the mandate of the Law No.7/2011 on Rupiah.

As has been known, the de-velopment of licensed non-bank money changer in Bali Province has increased quite rapidly. From the latest data owned by the Bank Indonesia for Bali Region, the total licensed money changer in Bali in 2014 reached 526 service offices, where 117 offices belonged to the

headquarters and scattered through-out the Bali Province. The largest distribution occurred in Badung, Denpasar City and Gianyar, with respective percentage of about 67 percent, 21 percent and 9 percent. Total assets of the licensed non-bank money changer in Bali in 2013 reached IDR 209.62 billion, or grew by 9.59 percent compared to the previous year, namely IDR 191.28 billion. In terms of volume, the average of total turnover (value of purchases and sales) of foreign banknotes and Traveler’s Check (TC) in 2014 reached IDR 2.31 trillion per month. (kmb27)

Illegal money changers tarnish the image of Bali tourism

SINGARAJA — Coral reefs in the water of Menjangan Is-land were touched again. Not half-heartedly, local residents found a number of damaged coral reefs due to a bomb. Target of the bombing was on the Sandy Slopes diving spot, exactly in the north of the Post I of Menjangan Island. The bombing was not the first time harming the residents and tourist guides on Menjangan Island. They have repeatedly found the damaged coral reefs as the impact of bombing alleged to seek unilateral advantage.

A tour guide, Nyoman Suntara, suspected the bombing action was committed secretly by cer-tain elements on Tuesday (Mar. 3) considering that most income

of communities at Pejarakan vil-lage, Sumberklampok village and surrounding areas sourced from diving and snorkeling excursion. He alleged the bombing was com-mitted by throwing bomb from a distance of three to five meters. Local people became furious and expected a further investigation to find out the bomber. “Coral reefs are destroyed. Some are scattered and broken into pieces. We expect this may not happen again and must be investigated thoroughly,” he said, Wednesday (Mar. 4).

According to Suntara, who previously participated in the act ion of Menjangan Is land Care, found several species of ornamental fish which inciden-tally living in coral reefs floating

dead due to fish bombing. Ironi-cally, the coral reefs around the island did not grow within one to two years but within decades to produce beautiful coral reefs. “We deeply regret the bombing against the coral reefs and fish. It was the second time happened af-ter the incident on Tuesday (Feb. 10) and Wednesday (Feb. 11), and seeing the incident, the commu-nity must unite,” he said.

He added that after the bomb-ing of coral reef and fish, some diving and snorkeling activities could still run normally. The entire tour guides were already re-educated to keep the underwa-ter ecosystem. “Tour guides took travelers to locations that were not hit by the bombing. It was

done by force so that travelers would not be disappointed when diving,” he added.

Meanwhile, the Head of West Bali National Park (TNBB), Tedi Sutedi, explained that after hearing the incident he asked the officers to see the situation in the field including the location of the reef bombing. “Sorry, I must check it first with staff in the field because we have not received any reports from the field,” said Tedi via text message of his cellular phone.

At separate location, the Chief of Buleleng Water Police, Putu Aryana, justified the bombing of the coral reefs when asked for his confirmation. It was alleged to happen at 6 o’clock p.m.; right

after tour guides delivered their guests back to boat landing dock. Allegedly the bomber came in from the Bangsring Port, Banyu-wangi, East Java. Responding to such incident, his party would tighten the security on Menjan-gan Island at some central posts having excellent potential of coral reefs.

“We will deploy our personnel at Post I pursuant to the instruc-tions of the Chief of County Police for one month until the culprit is arrested. At that time, national park officers were ac-tually on duty at Post I but the fish bomb was not audible from the mainland, and could only be heard by people who were div-ing,” he said. (kmb34)

Again, coral reef on Menjangan Island damaged by fish bomb

Pantunan valley, a tourism potential worth managing

BANGlI — pantunan valley located at Bangbang village, Tembuku subdistrict, has quite fascinating natural potential. The overlay of verdant paddy fields between high cliffs makes each eye of the beholder hooked. Although it has been visited by many travelers, the beauty of the valley on offer seems to have not been managed at all. Actually, when managed properly, it is not impossible to increase the regionally generated revenue (pAD) of the tourism sector.

NEW YORK — Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson expects the

price of oil to remain low over the next two years because of ample

global supplies and relatively weak economic growth.

“People need to kinda settle in for a while,” Tillerson said at the company’s annual investor conference in New York.

In a presentation to inves-tors outlining its business plans through 2017, Exxon assumes a price of $55 a barrel for global crude. That’s $5 below where Brent crude, the most important global benchmark, traded on Wednesday. It’s about half of what Brent averaged between 2011 and the middle of last year.

The price of oil plunged in the second half of 2014 when it became apparent that production was outpacing global demand. The rise in U.S. production last year of 1.5 million barrels per day was the third largest in the history of the global oil industry, according to a recent report from BP. Meanwhile, weakening economic conditions in China, Japan and Europe slowed the growth in oil demand.

BP CEO Bob Dudley made remarks similar to Tillerson’s in a recent call with investors. The CEOs comments reflect an in-creasingly common industry view that new sources of oil around the globe, relatively slow growth in demand, and large amounts of crude in storage will keep a lid on prices for the foreseeable future.

“When you have that much storage out there, it takes a long time to work that off,” Dudley said.

The U.S. Energy Department reported Wednesday that U.S. oil supplies have grown to 444.4 million barrels, the highest level at least 80 years.

Tillerson cautioned that geopo-litical turmoil could unexpectedly send prices higher. But he said that if tensions calm, much more oil is ready to hit the market.

Production in Libya has been erratic in recent years because of political upheaval there. Pro-duction in Iran, once OPEC’s second largest exporter, has been depressed in recent years because of Western sanctions. Those sanc-tions could be eased if current talks over Iran’s nuclear program make progress.

“I see a lot of supply out there,” Tillerson said.

Exxon will be adding to that in the coming years, despite the low prices.

Exxon told investors Wednes-day that 16 new production proj-ects will begin producing oil and gas through 2017, helping the com-pany increase production to 4.3 million barrels per day, up from 4 million barrels per day last year.

The company said it expects to spend less to develop new projects over the next three years, but mainly because prices that its suppliers charge have fallen considerably with the price of oil — not because it is cutting back exploring for oil and gas. (ap)

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The growth target of about 7 percent, down from last year’s 7.5 percent, is in line with efforts to create a “moderately prosperous society,” said Premier Li Keqiang in a report Thursday to China’s cer-emonial national legislature.

Actual economic growth last year was 7.4 percent, the lowest since 1990.

The ruling Communist Party is in the midst of a marathon effort to guide the world’s second-largest economy to slower but more self-sustaining growth based on domes-tic consumption and services. It is

trying to replace a worn-out model driven by trade and investment in construction and heavy industry that has left China’s air and water badly polluted.

“We need to maintain a proper balance between ensuring steady growth and making structural ad-justments,” said Li in the report to the National People’s Congress.

The full session of the 2,964-member NPC usually is limited to endorsing policy decisions already made by the ruling party but serves as a platform to publicize reform initiatives and set a tone for govern-

ment work.Communist leaders say they are

comfortable with the slowdown that President Xi Jinping, invoking an American phrase, has dubbed “the new normal.”

But in a sign they are afraid of a politically dangerous spike in joblessness, they have tried to spur activity with two interest rate cuts since November and a reduction in business taxes.

Li promised to give entrepre-neurs and foreign investors a bigger role in an economy that after three decades of market-oriented reforms

still is dominated by government-owned banks, oil producers and other companies.

Beijing will cut in half the number of fields in service and manufacturing industries in which foreign investment is restricted, the premier said. He gave no details but the change has long been sought by foreign companies that face a thicket of restrictions and feel in-creasingly unwelcome.

China’s growth has declined steadily since peaking at 14.2 per-cent in 2007. Much of that reduction was intentional as Beijing tried to cool inflation and a boom in con-struction and investment that fueled worries about rising debt. Efforts to promote consumer spending have

been slower to gain traction at a time when many workers worry about their financial futures.

The International Monetary Fund says growth could decline further to 7 percent this year and a Cabinet think tank, the Develop-ment Research Center, has said it could fall as low as 6 percent next year.

China’s slowdown has had glob-al repercussions, cutting demand for iron ore and other commodi-ties that helped to drive economic booms in Brazil, Australia and other countries. But if Beijing succeeds in building up a consumer market, that could boost demand for other imports from higher-quality food to Hollywood movies. (ap)

China lowers growth target, promises to open industries

BEIJING — China announced a lower economic growth target for this year and promised to open more industries to foreign investors as it tries to make its slowing, state-dominated economy more productive.

Exxon CEO: Get used to lower oil prices

The Head of the Denpasar Gov-ernment Tourism Office, Wayan Gunawan, revealed that his party still prepared everything related to the implementation of the city tour package. According to him, on March 6 his party with relevant agencies would conduct a working visit to the field to complete a num-ber of shortcomings, especially in the attraction and location included in the city tour.

“We will make a visit to the field to make coordination with relevant agencies regarding the

things needed to be completed. If it is considered to have been suffi-cient, it means there is no problem,” he said.

A number of points still needed to be addressed before the city tour program could be launched. Ac-cording to Gunawan, the presence illegal tour guides in front of the Jagatnatha Temple area became one of the main issues. Illegal tourist guides were often complained be-cause there was impression if they forced travelers to use their services. Meanwhile, regarding the hawkers,

Gunawan said, municipal police had provided them with guidance. It was expected the hawkers would no longer disturb the comfort of visitors when the city tour program had been implemented.

Another problem that was not less important was the parking space on Jalan Gajah Mada. So far, there were still visitors who parked their vehicles in front of the shopping complex. “Many visitors are still parking their vehicles in front of the store. Later on we will discipline them,” he said.

On the other hand, two attrac-tions namely the Maospait Temple and Jro Kuta Palace were also still in need of further handling. Although the sanitation and toilet in both locations were pretty good, his party considered it necessary to make a bit revamping. Both loca-tions still needed the installation of notice board and brochures display. Not only that, both attractions were also planned to become the sales counter of souvenir for visitors.

Furthermore, Gunawan said that he was optimistic if the city tour package could be launched on target. There were still about three weeks to make corrections and re-solve the existing problems.

What about the proposal of trad-ers to include culinary delights in the city tour package? Gunawan claimed his party could not accom-modate the proposal yet. Actually the government and tourism asso-ciation had been thinking about it, but the academic studies, especially regarding the location of the culi-nary center in Denpasar, remained to be carried out.

“The issue on culinary pro-gram belongs to middle-term and long-term program. We need to explore where we can build a culinary center. We do not want to build that will only result in polemics in the community,” he said. (kmb25)

TABANAN - According to gov-ernment regulation, every veteran can be buried in memorial park. One of the memorial parks in Bali is the Pancaka Tirta located in the heart of Tabanan. Established in 1950, the capacity of this memorial park is almost fully occupied.

According to an attendant of the Pancaka Tirta memorial park, Gusti Putu Suratna, the capacity only remained for 90 tombs.

Pancaka Tirta itself is divided into three blocks, namely physical block used to bury the heroes who died during the period of 1945-1949. In this block at least 640 heroes have been buried. “Physical

block is intended for heroes who never enjoyed the independence. This block has been fully occupied and cannot be increased,” he said.

For the heroes who can enjoy the independence or those getting honor will be buried in the block of happiness. It consists of two blocks where it has been occupied by 241 heroes. ìWhen counted, it can still accommodate around 90 tombs,î he said. Although the capacity is only 90, added Suratna, not all veterans are buried in the memorial park. “Balinese people are rarely willing to be buried in memorial park be-cause they are usually buried close to the family,” he said.

Management and maintenance of the Pancaka Tirta memorial park was performed by Bali Social Services. If there was no event, it looked deserted. According to Suratna, young generation rarely made a visit to Pancaka Tirta just to have a look or ask about the history of the memorial park. The tomb of Gusti Debes was usually flocked by pilgrims on Independence Day or anniversary of particular agen-cies or schools. “No visitors or chiefly young generation come individually. The visiting pilgrims are mostly the families of the he-roes,” he said.

According to Suratna, the Pan-

caka Tirta was planned to be trans-formed into a tourist destination. Regarding the policy, the Head of Tabanan Tourism and Culture Agency, Wayan Adnyana, explained that the decision belonged to the authority of the Bali government. “Like the Margarana memorial park, the Pancaka Tirta is also man-aged by the province,” he said.

Currently the Margarana me-morial park had been made into a cultural destination. Later on the Pancaka Tirta would also be pack-aged together; according Adnyana, while the decision about this would be made by provincial government. (kmb24)

DENPASAR - Non-active zone or the area no longer used for the waste disposal at Suwung landfill actually has been strived to be re-forested. However, the effort often fails.

Secretary of the Denpasar Sani-tation and Landscaping Agency (DKP), I Dewa Gede Anom Sayoga, accompanied by Landfill Division Head, A.A. Raka Wedana, revealed the Suwung landfill was divided into active and non-active zone. All this time the non-active zone was worked on for reforestation. Gradual reforestation had been done, but it had not yielded satisfac-tory results.

The planted trees often died due to exposure to liquids of the waste and methane gas in the local area. Such substances disrupted the plant growth. Tree seedlings planted could not grow well and finally died.

Not only that, the act of wild cattle in the area also kindled a problem of its own. The cattle of people let roam around in the landfill always dam-aged the tree seedlings planted.

Raka Wedana explained that cur-rently Denpasar municipality tried to do reforestation by planting seedlings of rain tree. It was considered strong enough to survive. Reforestation plan had been drawn up. As for the non-active zone, it was already back-filled. ìThe reforestation will be done gradually,î he said.

He explained the area of Suwung landfill spread across 32.48 hectares. Not all points were used to pile up rubbish. There were 5 zones classi-fied into non-active with an area of about 10 hectares. (kmb25)

Illegal guide and parking issues hinder city tour implementationDENPASAR - Denpasar city tour package cannot be launched early March. To date, a num-

ber of preparatory issues in the field cannot be completed. Denpasar municipality targets the program can only be launched at the end of March.

Often fails, reforestation at Suwung landfill

Capacity of Pancaka Tirta memorial park almost full

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One of the memorial parks in Bali is the Pancaka Tirta located in the heart of Tabanan.

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The rupiah extended the losing trend to its weakest level in many years at 13,000 from 12,975 per US dollar earlier, after signs of improvement of the US economy, chief researcher of Monex Investindo Futures Ariston Tjendra said.

The improvement of the US economy strengthened the US dollar against the major-ity of the global currencies including rupiah, he said.

“The US dollar has gained not only over rupiah but also against other currencies,” he said.

“In addition, the dollar gain was also contrib-uted by an increase in the yield on US treasury bond in the last few days as a result of excess

liquidity by the Bank of Japan , European Cen-tral Bank and other central banks,” he said.

Meanwhile, chief researcher of NH Ko-rindo Securities Indonesia Reza Priyambada said expectation of a cut in Bank Indonesia benchmark interest rate (BI rate) gave a nega-tive sentiment to the national currency.

There has been expectation of further cut in the BI rate after the countrys deflation in two successive months, January and February.

Earlier the Indonesian central bank al-ready cut its interest from 7.75 percent to 7.5 percent.

“The cut expectation of the BI rate prompted short term investors to sell their rupiah,” he said. (ant)

CANBERRA — Australia has offered Indonesia a prison swap deal in an 11th hour bid to save the lives of two Aus-tralian drug smugglers who have been transferred to an island prison where they are to be killed by firing squad within days.

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said on Thursday she made the proposal to her Indonesian counterpart Retno Marsudi who had agreed to convey it to President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo. Bishop said she had yet to hear back.

The Australian newspaper reported Bishop had offered to repatriate three convicted Indonesian drug criminals in return for the lives of the Australians, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.

The Australians are among nine for-eigners who are to be executed soon.

The proposal was made in a phone call Tuesday night after Indonesia announced the men would be transferred Wednesday

from their prison home of a decade on the resort island of Bali to their place of execution, the newspaper said.

Bishop and Prime Minister Tony Abbott were among 40 lawmakers who gathered near the front doors of Parlia-ment House for a candlelight vigil for the death row prisoners.

Abbott said he had requested another phone conversation with Widodo, a week after his last personal plea for the Aus-tralians’ lives.

“I can’t guarantee that the request will be met, but I’ve certainly put in a request because the government and the people of Indonesia need to know that this is important to us,” Abbott said.

“We respect Indonesia, we honor the friendship that we have with Indonesia, but we stand up for our values and we stand up for our citizens and these are Australian citizens in extremis,” he added. (ap)

JAKARTA - Amnesty International on Thursday issued another urgent request, rallying its members to call on the Indonesian authorities to immediately halt the plans to carry out any executions.

“One of the men has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, even though the international law could not be clearer on banning executions of those suffering from mental disabilities,” Amnesty International noted in a statement.

Several prisoners have also been convicted of drug traf-ficking, despite the offences not meeting the threshold of “most serious crimes” for which the death penalty may be imposed under the international law, it stated.

“The failure to genuinely consider clemency applications on a case-by-case basis, for those sentenced to death for drug-related crimes, is contrary to the Indonesian Constitu-tion and the international law and raises serious questions about the rule of law in Indonesia,” Research Director of Southeast Asia and Pacific Regional Office of Amnesty International Rupert Abbott noted.

Indonesia’s Attorney General has confirmed that 11 ex-ecutions of death row prisoners convicted for drug traffick-ing and murder will be carried out imminently. The prisoners include both foreigners and Indonesian nationals.

“It is deeply troubling that the Indonesian government is apparently determined to push ahead with more killings, despite showing promise to move away from the death penalty until executions resumed in 2013,” he stated.

The Indonesian government executed six people on January 19 and has announced plans to execute 14 more this year. The government has rejected all clemency pleas of death row prisoners.

“We urge President Widodo to change course imme-diately, before his early human rights record is tarnished further. The executions would also seriously undermine Indonesias credibility to speak out about human rights at the regional and global level, including saving the lives of Indonesians on death row elsewhere,” he added. (ant)

Rupiah loses more value

JAKARTA - The Indonesian currency rupiah lost more value on Thursday morn-ing to sink to the a weakest level in several years at 13,000 per US dollar.

Australia offers Indonesia prisoner swap to stop executions

Amnesty International again requests Indonesia to halt execution plans

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Angelita Muxfeldt , center, a cousin of Rodrigo Gularte, Brazilian national who is on death row for smug-gling drugs into Indonesia, walks at Wijaya Pura port in Cilacap, Central Java, Indonesia, Thursday, March 5, 2015. Indonesia plans executions of nine foreign drug criminals despite clemency appeals from several of their governments.

The U.S. State Department con-demned the attack, which happened at a performing arts center in downtown Seoul as the ambassador was prepar-ing for a lecture about prospects for peace on the divided Korean Pen-insula. The U.S. Embassy later said Lippert was in stable condition after surgery at a Seoul hospital.

In a televised briefing, Chung Nam-sik of the Severance Hospital said 80 stiches were needed to close the facial wound, which was 11 centi-meters (just more than 4 inches) long and 3 centimeters (just more than 1 inch) deep. He added the cut did not affect his nerves or salivary gland.

Chung said the knife penetrated through Lippert’s left arm and dam-aged the nerves connected to his pinkie and tendons connected to his thumb. Lippert will need to be treated at the hospital for the next three or four days and may experience sensory problems in his left hand for several months, Chung said.

The attack will shock many out-siders because the United States is South Korea’s closest ally, its military protector and a big trading partner and cultural influence.

But the reported comments of the suspect, 55-year-old Kim Ki-jong, during the attack — “South and North Korea should be reunified” — touch on a deep political divide in South Korea over the still-fresh legacy of the 1950-53 Korean War, which is still technically ongoing because it ended in an armistice, not a peace

treaty. Some South Koreans blame the presence of 28,500 U.S. troops stationed in the South as a deterrent to the North for the continuing split of the Korean Peninsula along the world’s most heavily armed border — a view North Korea’s propaganda machine regularly pushes in state media.

The attack came suddenly, wit-nesses said. A knife-wielding man ran screaming up to Lippert as soup was being served for the breakfast meeting and began slashing, said Kim Young-man, spokesman for the group hosting the breakfast, the Korean Council for Reconciliation and Cooperation. A separate, unidentified witness told lo-cal media that as Lippert stood up for a handshake, the suspect wrestled the ambassador to the ground and slashed him with a knife.

Yonhap TV showed men in suits and ties piled on top of the attacker, who was dressed in a modern version of the traditional Korean hanbok, and Lippert later being rushed to a police car with a blood-soaked handkerchief pressed to his cheek. The suspect also shouted anti-war slogans after he was detained, police said. They said the knife was about 25 centimeters long (10 inches).

A direct attack on a senior U.S. official is unusual, but it represents a thread in South Korean society of sometimes extreme protests on both sides of the political divide. Regular small to medium-sized demonstra-tions, often by activists seen as profes-sional protesters, occur across Seoul,

YANGON, Myanmar — Police say they have detained more than a dozen factory workers, who were demanding higher wages and better working conditions, in a protest that follows a crackdown on students outside Myanmar’s biggest city. The detentions came when about 100 workers tried to march from their factories into Yangon late Wednesday but were blocked by police. After some workers staged a sit-in, police dragged them away.

The protest in two industrial zones near Yan-gon came as police in an area 140 kilometers (90 miles) from Yangon were faced off with hundreds

of students demanding education reforms.Since the country started moving from a

half-century of dictatorship to democracy just four years ago, the government has found itself grappling with the consequences of newfound freedoms of expression. In both cases, authorities warned they would take action if protesters tried to march to Yangon.

The Ministry of Information said Thursday that 13 workers, many of them women, had been arrested. Protesters said the number was much higher. Two journalists also were briefly held, the government said. (ap)

SINGAPORE — Singapore on Thurs-day sentenced two German men to three strokes of the cane and nine months in prison after they were found guilty of vandalizing a public train carriage. The attorney-general’s office identified the two men as 22-year-old Andreas Von Knorre and 21-year-old Elton Hinz.

They entered a Singapore train depot at night in November and sprayed paint

on a train that was parked there, accord-ing to The Straits Times and other media reports.

The duo then left Singapore, were later spotted by police in Bangkok, and even-tually were arrested in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and extradited back to Singa-pore, the reports said. They have been in jail since November, and their sentence will be backdated until then. (ap)

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U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert leaves a lecture hall for a hospital in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, March 5, 2015 after being attacked by a man. Lippert was attacked by a man wielding a razor and screaming that the rival Koreas should be unified, South Korean police and media said Thursday.

US envoy to SKorea in stable condition after knife attack

SEOUL, South Korea — U.S. Ambassador Mark Lippert was in stable condition after a man screaming demands for a unified North and South Korea slashed him on the face and wrist with a knife, South Korean police and U.S. officials said Thursday. Media images showed a stunned-looking Lippert examining his blood-covered left hand and holding his right hand over a cut on the right side of his face, his pink tie splat-tered with blood.

Singapore sentences 2 Germans to caning for vandalism

Myanmar police drag away protesting factory workers

often either by anti-U.S. liberals who support closer reconciliation with the North, or pro-government conserva-tive groups who support the U.S. and loathe Pyongyang.

Violence sometimes breaks out at the protests. Scuffles with police and the burning of effigies of North Kore-an and Japanese leaders are common. Demonstrators sometimes severe their own fingers, throw bodily fluids at embassies and try to self-immolate. In 2008, hundreds of thousands took to the streets to protest U.S. beef imports

after a mad cow scare in America. Both sides of the divide also protest regularly against archrival Japan, which colonized Korea in the early 20th century, over territorial and his-tory disputes.

True to form, conservative civic groups planned to hold rallies later Thursday to condemn the attack on the ambassador. The suspect in the attack appeared to be well-known in Seoul for his willingness to use violence to highlight his grievances.

A police official, speaking on

condition of anonymity because the investigation was still happen-ing, said the suspect in 2010 threw a piece of concrete at the Japanese ambassador in Seoul. South Korean media reported that Kim Ki-jong was later sentenced to a three-year suspended prison term over the attack. Kim, who was protesting Japan’s claim to small disputed islands that are occupied by South Korea, missed the ambassador with the concrete and hit his secretary instead, the reports said. (ap)

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moNTeRReY — Top-seeded defending champion Ana Ivanovic of Serbia advanced to the quarter-finals in the Monterrey Open on Wednesday night, beating Pauline Parmentier of France 6-3, 6-2.

Ivanovic will face France’s Kris-tina Mladenovic, a 6-4, 6-2 winner over Russia’s Vera Zvonareva in the

hard-court event at Sierra Madre Tennis Club.

Second-seeded Sara Errani of Italy and eighth-seeded Magdalena Rybarikova of Slovakia also won second-round matches. Errani beat Timea Babos of Hungary 6-3, 6-3, and Rybarikova outlasted Polona Hercog of Slovenia of 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 (9). (ap)

SeRgio Perez believes Force India is “a couple of steps” behind its Formula 1 rivals after the team completed just two-and-a-half days of pre-season testing. A combina-tion of factors, including cashflow problems and delays with suppliers, meant that the VJM08 was held up in production, forcing the team to miss the first test. Mercedes paying the team to run its reserve driver Pascal Wehrlein for two days made it financiably viable for Force India to attend the second test - but only with the 2014 car.

The 2015 challenger then ar-rived on the morning of day two of the third and final test, with the team doing an impressive job to get Nico Hulkenberg out before the lunchbreak.

“We only had two days, that is the reality and we cannot hide it,” said Perez. “We are on the back foot due to limited running. But it is a promising start and we have to take the best out of the situation. “It will

take a couple of races to get where we want to be and there is a lot of work ahead of us.

“I think we are a couple of steps behind the competition.” The car ran reliably at Barcelona, with Hulkenberg and Perez completing 365 laps between them, just 15 laps shy of McLaren’s total tally across 12 days.

Perez believes there are good reasons to be optimistic despite the delays so far. “We have a clear direction on what we need to work on,” added Perez. “Aero depart-ments are really working well together on the weaknesses of this car, and that is positive.

“I have been in this situation be-fore with McLaren where it took us up to the fifth race to realise where we were and to know the numbers. “Now to do that on the second day of testing is an impressive effort from the team and now we have to work hard to get to the level that we want to be.”(net)

Memphis went ahead with a minute remaining after Courtney Lee made a pair of free throws, but Terrence Jones tied the scores with a hook shot seconds later and Gasol missed at the other end to set up the climactic sequence.

Gasol blocked James Harden’s layup with 6.4 seconds left to give the Grizzlies the ball back and he had time left for his winner. Gasol finished with 21 points. Jones had 21 points for the Rockets and Harden scored 18 in his return after a one-game suspension.

Portland’s Nicolas Batum hit a 3-pointer that forced overtime, then set up three alley-oop baskets and added a clinching 3 in the final minute to rally the Trail Blazers to a 98-93 win at the Los Angeles Clip-pers. LaMarcus Aldridge had 29 points and Batum added 20 for the Northwest Division leaders, who

have won four straight.Blazers guard Damian Lillard

had a career-high 18 rebounds to compensate for a terrible night of shooting. He missed his first 12 shots and finished with only five points. Golden State returned from a six-game road trip and struggled to shrug off a persistent Milwaukee before beating the Bucks 102-93.

Stephen Curry shook off a rough shooting night to make three straight 3-pointers early in the fourth quar-ter. He finished with 19 points and 11 assists while Draymond Green had 23 points and 12 rebounds on his 25th birthday as the Warriors improved to an NBA-best 25-2 at home. Giannis Antetokounmpo and Michael Carter-Williams scored 16 points each for the Bucks, who went winless on a four-game trip.

Cleveland’s LeBron James scored 29 points and matched a

season high with 14 assists to lead the Cavaliers to a 120-112 victory over Toronto, moving into a virtual tie with Chicago for top spot in the Central Division. Kevin Love had 22 points and 10 rebounds while Kyrie Irving scored 26 points for the Cavaliers,

Jonas Valanciunas had 26 points and 11 rebounds for the Raptors, who remain 12 games clear atop the weak Atlantic Division despite having lost six of their past seven games. San Antonio recorded the biggest home win of the season by beating Sacramento 112-85.

The Spurs, returning from a near month-long road trip as its home stadium is turned over to an annual rodeo competition, got 21 points from Kawhi Leonard while Tony Parker added 19. DeMarcus Cous-ins had 14 points for the Kings on 5-for-12 shooting. (ap)

Gasol buzzer beats lifts Grizzlies over RocketsHoUSToN — memphis’ marc gasol made a jump shot with 0.1 seconds left to give the

grizzlies a 102-100 win at Houston on Wednesday, widening their lead over the Rockets atop the NBA Southwest Division to 2-1/2 games. The victory kept memphis in touch with Western conference leader golden State, which returned home and beat milwaukee in a tight game, while other key clashes of playoff contenders saw Portland win in overtime at the los Angeles clippers and cleveland defeat Toronto.

AP Photo/Pat Sullivan

Memphis Grizzlies’ Marc Gasol (33) makes a last-second shot over Houston Rockets Ter-rence Jones (6) and James Harden to defeat the Rockets 102-100 in an NBA basketball game Wednesday, March 4, 2015, in Houston.

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Sergio Perez: Force India Formula 1 team

‘a couple of steps behind’

Top-seeded Ivanovic advances to Monterrey

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United stayed a point behind third-place Arsenal in the race for Champions League qualification. Arsenal and fifth-place Liverpool also won on Wednesday. “I think we have dominated for 90 minutes, maybe our best match of the season, especially in an away match. We deserved the victory,” Van Gaal said. “It was a narrow escape because our rivals have won also.”

The game was marred by an angry ex-change between Newcastle striker Papiss Cisse and United defender Jonny Evans at the end of the first half, with television pictures appearing to show both players spat — although not necessarily at each other. Both managers said they didn’t see the incident.

It was another disappointing match for Ar-gentina midfielder Angel Di Maria, who was substituted in the 58th minute — four days after being taken off at halftime in United’s win over Sunderland. Another high-profile summer signing, Radamel Falcao, was on the bench and didn’t come on — even though fellow striker Robin van Persie is still out injured.

Krul’s late error overshadowed an other-

wise impressive display by the goalkeeper, who produced a stunning double save to

deny Marouane Fellaini and Young in the 54th minute.

At the o the r end , U n i t e d

goalkeep-er David de Gea twice saved shots by Emmanuel Riviere and Cisse scuffed a shot wide on a coun-ter-attack with only De Gea to beat.

One of the biggest cheers of the night came in the 65th minute when Argentina midfielder Jonas Gutierrez came on as a substitute for his first appearance since October 2013 following his successful battle against testicular cancer.

“I will remember for the rest of my life the reception,” Gutierrez said. “The support I have had from clubs all around the world — they don’t matter about the shirt — it has helped me keep fight-ing.” The 31-year-old Gutierrez was given the all-clear in November. (ap)

LONDON — Swansea striker Bafetimbi Gomis collapsed during an English Premier League game at Tottenham on Wednesday and was taken to a hospital as a precautionary measure. The France striker was at-tended to by medical staff for about four minutes and was wearing an oxygen mask as he was carried off the pitch on a stretcher.

“I wanted to reassure you concern-ing my health,” Gomis said hours later in quotes published on Swansea’s website. “It actually looks much scar-ier than it is physically dangerous, and

I am feeling well now.” Gomis said he had been under stress and suffering from fatigue because of the health of his father, which required him to go back and forth to France for visits.

“He is fine,” Swansea manager Garry Monk said of Gomis. “Coming off the pitch he was fine, talking and he actually wanted to stay on the pitch.”

Gomis, who went to ground as the players made their way to restart after Nacer Chadli gave Spurs a seventh-minute lead, has a history of losing consciousness during games.

“It’s something that we’re well

aware of and it’s part of his history, but obviously he’s had all the checks,” Monk said. “We knew about this when he came to the club. He’s had all the medical checks that you can possibly do and it’s just part of his life. It’s to do with low blood pressure.”

Monk is not sure whether Gomis, who joined last year from Lyon, lost consciousness in the incident which stems from a long-standing condition. “We’ll clarify now with the club doc-tor and see what we do from here, see whether we pick him up or he gets his own car back,” Monk said. (ap)

MADRID — Two goals by Ney-mar and one from Luis Suarez gave Barcelona a 3-1 victory over 10-man Villarreal on Wednesday and a place in the final of the Copa del Rey. Barce-lona advanced 6-2 on aggregate after winning the first leg of the semifinal by the same scoreline.

In the other semifinal, Athletic Bilbao beat Espanyol 2-0 away on the night and 3-1 on aggregate, crushing the hosts’ hopes of an all-Catalan final. Villarreal began by pressing forward but Barcelona struck first with an inspired pass by Lionel Messi that Neymar lobbed over goalkeeper Ser-gio Asenjo in the third minute.

Jonathan dos Santos equalized for Villarreal in the 39th when he buried Jaume Costa’s pass to the far post. But Villarreal went a man down in the 65th after a straight red card for Tomas Pina for a clumsy tackle from behind on Neymar. Suarez sidestepped a defender and Asenjo to score in the 73th and Neymar headed in his sixth goal in this season’s Copa from a pinpoint cross from Xavi Hernandez in the 88th.

“Once again in a final,” Neymar said. “Villarreal is a good team with many high quality players and we knew it was going to be a difficult match, so that pushed us to try and start the game well.”

Although Villarreal mounted six attacks early on, they had difficulty in breaking down Barcelona’s defense and goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen made his first save by palming Denis Cheryshev’s shot away in the 21st. Frustration began to show in Villar-

real’s squad, with Dos Santos and Cheryshev receiving yellow cards in quick succession before the Mexico midfielder scored for the hosts. Pina twisted Sergio Busquets’ ankle badly when he accidentally landed on it in the 41st while making a pass.

Busquets was taken off the field in obvious pain on a stretcher and replaced by Jeremy Mathieu. Later, Barcelona said the Spain midfielder had sustained a high ankle sprain and would need to undergo tests to deter-mine the extent of the injury.

Fans at the Madrigal stadium cheered Asenjo as he dived to save a shot by Messi in the 55th and again when he stopped one by Neymar in the 72nd.

“We’re sad. We knew it was going to be a complicated match against a Barcelona that’s playing very well,” Dos Santos said. “Their first goal wasn’t what we were expecting but after that we pressed them at all times and although we regained control of the match, Barcelona can kill you off at any moment.”

Athletic kept alive its remaining hope of success this season after be-ing knocked out of the Europa League by Torino last week and remaining stubbornly glued to La Liga’s mid-table.

Aritz Aduriz pounced on a poor clearance to open the scoring for in the 13th. Xabier Etxeita doubled the tally for Athletic when he headed in a corner kick in the 42nd. Athletic goalkeeper Iago Herrerin was substituted by Gorka Iraizoz in the 66th after injuring his left knee. (ap)

ASUNCION, Paraguay — FIFA President Sepp Blatter urged South America’s football associations on Wednesday to hand out tougher sanctions for acts of racism by soccer fans. Speaking to members of the South American confedera-tion CONMEBOL, Blatter said clubs linked to offending fans need to have points deducted and even be relegated.

“We have a serious problem of racism and discrimination,” Blatter said. “We have the rules, but we lack the courage to stop this all over the world.” Players of African descent are routinely jeered by fans across South America. This happens even in Brazil, which has a large Afro-Brazilian population.

Blat ter ’s comments came on the same day Peruvian club

Cienciano was fined more than $12,000 and ordered to play a match without its fans after some of its supporters racially insulted Panamanian str iker Luis Tejada, who is black, dur-ing a first-division game.

Blatter was in South America looking for support from the 10-member confederation in his bid for re-election in May to a fifth four-year term.

The body did not formally announce its support. But on Tuesday a person familiar with the decision told the Associated Press that CONMEBOL was supporting Blatter, who turns 79 next week.

The other candidates are FIFA Vice President Pr ince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan, Dutch federation head Michael van Praag and Portugal great

Luis Figo. FIFA’s 209 member countries vote separately, but at least one South American head has urged the group to vote as a bloc.

CONMEBOL has strong ties to Blatter. Blatter’s predecessor Joao Havelange is a Brazilian. Julio Grondona, the head of the Argentine federation who died last year, was FIFA’s senior vice president. (ap)

ROME — Defending champion Napoli drew 1-1 at Lazio in

the first leg of their Italian Cup semifinal on Wednes-d a y . Miroslav Klose

broke the dead-lock in the 33rd minute but the in-form Mano-

lo Gabbiadini leveled for Napoli

shortly before the hour mark. Both sides also hit

the woodwork in an entertaining match that leaves it all to play for in the second leg in Naples next month.

The winner will face either Ju-ventus or Fiorentina, which meet in

the other semifinal. Napoli has won two of the past three editions of the competition, with Lazio triumphing in 2013.

The teams are also evenly matched in the league, with Lazio two points behind Napoli in the fight for third spot. Lazio had lost all but one of its past six matches against Napoli but almost took an early lead when Klose headed a corner off the left upright. It did take the lead, though, shortly after the half hour following a classic coun-ter attack. Felipe Anderson sprinted forward and played a smart through ball to Klose, who sidefooted it past the onrushing Mariano Andujar.

Napoli went close to the equalizer

five minutes into the second half but David Lopez’s header from a corner clipped the top of the crossbar.

Rafa Benitez’s side leveled in the 58th. Dries Mertens put a delightful ball over the top towards Gonzalo Higuain, who rounded Lazio goal-keeper Etrit Berisha. His attempt to get it into the empty net appeared to be going wide but Gabbiadini tapped it in.

Gabbiadini has scored five goals for Napoli since a January move from Sampdoria, where he had scored nine goals before the winter break. The match was overshadowed somewhat by Lazio fans chanting abuse about the city of Naples and its citizens. (ap)

Napoli draws 1-1 at Lazio in 1st leg of Italian Cup semi

Swansea striker Gomis collapses during Premier League match

AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth

Swansea’s Bafetimbi Gomis is carried off the pitch on a stretcher during the English Pre-mier League soccer match between Tottenham Hotspur and Swansea City at White Hart Lane stadium in London, Wednesday, March 4, 2015.

AP Photo/Alberto Saiz

Barcelona’s Luis Suarez, left, shoots to score pass Villarreal’s

goalkeeper Sergio Asenjo during a

semifinal, second leg, Copa del Rey soccer match be-tween FC Barce-

lona and Villarreal at the Madrigal stadium in Vil-larreal, Spain,

Wednesday, March 4, 2015.

Barcelona beats Villarreal 3-1, reaches Copa del Rey final

Blatter: Sanctions against racism need to be stiffer

AP Photo/Scott Heppell

Manchester Unit-ed’s Ashley Young celebrates his goal

during their English Premier League soc-

cer match between Newcastle United and

Manchester United at St James’ Park,

Newcastle, England, Wednesday, March, 4,

2015.

Man United leaves it late to beat Newcastle 1-0 in EPL

NEWCASTLE, England — Ashley Young capitalized on a dreadful error by New-castle goalkeeper Tim Krul and scored an 89th-minute goal to earn Manchester United a 1-0 win in the Premier League on Wednesday, tightening his team’s grip on fourth place. Under pressure from Wayne Rooney, Krul mis-hit a hurried clear- ance along the ground and straight to Young, who s t e e re d in a finish inside the near post.

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United stayed a point behind third-place Arsenal in the race for Champions League qualification. Arsenal and fifth-place Liverpool also won on Wednesday. “I think we have dominated for 90 minutes, maybe our best match of the season, especially in an away match. We deserved the victory,” Van Gaal said. “It was a narrow escape because our rivals have won also.”

The game was marred by an angry ex-change between Newcastle striker Papiss Cisse and United defender Jonny Evans at the end of the first half, with television pictures appearing to show both players spat — although not necessarily at each other. Both managers said they didn’t see the incident.

It was another disappointing match for Ar-gentina midfielder Angel Di Maria, who was substituted in the 58th minute — four days after being taken off at halftime in United’s win over Sunderland. Another high-profile summer signing, Radamel Falcao, was on the bench and didn’t come on — even though fellow striker Robin van Persie is still out injured.

Krul’s late error overshadowed an other-

wise impressive display by the goalkeeper, who produced a stunning double save to

deny Marouane Fellaini and Young in the 54th minute.

At the o the r end , U n i t e d

goalkeep-er David de Gea twice saved shots by Emmanuel Riviere and Cisse scuffed a shot wide on a coun-ter-attack with only De Gea to beat.

One of the biggest cheers of the night came in the 65th minute when Argentina midfielder Jonas Gutierrez came on as a substitute for his first appearance since October 2013 following his successful battle against testicular cancer.

“I will remember for the rest of my life the reception,” Gutierrez said. “The support I have had from clubs all around the world — they don’t matter about the shirt — it has helped me keep fight-ing.” The 31-year-old Gutierrez was given the all-clear in November. (ap)

LONDON — Swansea striker Bafetimbi Gomis collapsed during an English Premier League game at Tottenham on Wednesday and was taken to a hospital as a precautionary measure. The France striker was at-tended to by medical staff for about four minutes and was wearing an oxygen mask as he was carried off the pitch on a stretcher.

“I wanted to reassure you concern-ing my health,” Gomis said hours later in quotes published on Swansea’s website. “It actually looks much scar-ier than it is physically dangerous, and

I am feeling well now.” Gomis said he had been under stress and suffering from fatigue because of the health of his father, which required him to go back and forth to France for visits.

“He is fine,” Swansea manager Garry Monk said of Gomis. “Coming off the pitch he was fine, talking and he actually wanted to stay on the pitch.”

Gomis, who went to ground as the players made their way to restart after Nacer Chadli gave Spurs a seventh-minute lead, has a history of losing consciousness during games.

“It’s something that we’re well

aware of and it’s part of his history, but obviously he’s had all the checks,” Monk said. “We knew about this when he came to the club. He’s had all the medical checks that you can possibly do and it’s just part of his life. It’s to do with low blood pressure.”

Monk is not sure whether Gomis, who joined last year from Lyon, lost consciousness in the incident which stems from a long-standing condition. “We’ll clarify now with the club doc-tor and see what we do from here, see whether we pick him up or he gets his own car back,” Monk said. (ap)

MADRID — Two goals by Ney-mar and one from Luis Suarez gave Barcelona a 3-1 victory over 10-man Villarreal on Wednesday and a place in the final of the Copa del Rey. Barce-lona advanced 6-2 on aggregate after winning the first leg of the semifinal by the same scoreline.

In the other semifinal, Athletic Bilbao beat Espanyol 2-0 away on the night and 3-1 on aggregate, crushing the hosts’ hopes of an all-Catalan final. Villarreal began by pressing forward but Barcelona struck first with an inspired pass by Lionel Messi that Neymar lobbed over goalkeeper Ser-gio Asenjo in the third minute.

Jonathan dos Santos equalized for Villarreal in the 39th when he buried Jaume Costa’s pass to the far post. But Villarreal went a man down in the 65th after a straight red card for Tomas Pina for a clumsy tackle from behind on Neymar. Suarez sidestepped a defender and Asenjo to score in the 73th and Neymar headed in his sixth goal in this season’s Copa from a pinpoint cross from Xavi Hernandez in the 88th.

“Once again in a final,” Neymar said. “Villarreal is a good team with many high quality players and we knew it was going to be a difficult match, so that pushed us to try and start the game well.”

Although Villarreal mounted six attacks early on, they had difficulty in breaking down Barcelona’s defense and goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen made his first save by palming Denis Cheryshev’s shot away in the 21st. Frustration began to show in Villar-

real’s squad, with Dos Santos and Cheryshev receiving yellow cards in quick succession before the Mexico midfielder scored for the hosts. Pina twisted Sergio Busquets’ ankle badly when he accidentally landed on it in the 41st while making a pass.

Busquets was taken off the field in obvious pain on a stretcher and replaced by Jeremy Mathieu. Later, Barcelona said the Spain midfielder had sustained a high ankle sprain and would need to undergo tests to deter-mine the extent of the injury.

Fans at the Madrigal stadium cheered Asenjo as he dived to save a shot by Messi in the 55th and again when he stopped one by Neymar in the 72nd.

“We’re sad. We knew it was going to be a complicated match against a Barcelona that’s playing very well,” Dos Santos said. “Their first goal wasn’t what we were expecting but after that we pressed them at all times and although we regained control of the match, Barcelona can kill you off at any moment.”

Athletic kept alive its remaining hope of success this season after be-ing knocked out of the Europa League by Torino last week and remaining stubbornly glued to La Liga’s mid-table.

Aritz Aduriz pounced on a poor clearance to open the scoring for in the 13th. Xabier Etxeita doubled the tally for Athletic when he headed in a corner kick in the 42nd. Athletic goalkeeper Iago Herrerin was substituted by Gorka Iraizoz in the 66th after injuring his left knee. (ap)

ASUNCION, Paraguay — FIFA President Sepp Blatter urged South America’s football associations on Wednesday to hand out tougher sanctions for acts of racism by soccer fans. Speaking to members of the South American confedera-tion CONMEBOL, Blatter said clubs linked to offending fans need to have points deducted and even be relegated.

“We have a serious problem of racism and discrimination,” Blatter said. “We have the rules, but we lack the courage to stop this all over the world.” Players of African descent are routinely jeered by fans across South America. This happens even in Brazil, which has a large Afro-Brazilian population.

Blat ter ’s comments came on the same day Peruvian club

Cienciano was fined more than $12,000 and ordered to play a match without its fans after some of its supporters racially insulted Panamanian str iker Luis Tejada, who is black, dur-ing a first-division game.

Blatter was in South America looking for support from the 10-member confederation in his bid for re-election in May to a fifth four-year term.

The body did not formally announce its support. But on Tuesday a person familiar with the decision told the Associated Press that CONMEBOL was supporting Blatter, who turns 79 next week.

The other candidates are FIFA Vice President Pr ince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan, Dutch federation head Michael van Praag and Portugal great

Luis Figo. FIFA’s 209 member countries vote separately, but at least one South American head has urged the group to vote as a bloc.

CONMEBOL has strong ties to Blatter. Blatter’s predecessor Joao Havelange is a Brazilian. Julio Grondona, the head of the Argentine federation who died last year, was FIFA’s senior vice president. (ap)

ROME — Defending champion Napoli drew 1-1 at Lazio in

the first leg of their Italian Cup semifinal on Wednes-d a y . Miroslav Klose

broke the dead-lock in the 33rd minute but the in-form Mano-

lo Gabbiadini leveled for Napoli

shortly before the hour mark. Both sides also hit

the woodwork in an entertaining match that leaves it all to play for in the second leg in Naples next month.

The winner will face either Ju-ventus or Fiorentina, which meet in

the other semifinal. Napoli has won two of the past three editions of the competition, with Lazio triumphing in 2013.

The teams are also evenly matched in the league, with Lazio two points behind Napoli in the fight for third spot. Lazio had lost all but one of its past six matches against Napoli but almost took an early lead when Klose headed a corner off the left upright. It did take the lead, though, shortly after the half hour following a classic coun-ter attack. Felipe Anderson sprinted forward and played a smart through ball to Klose, who sidefooted it past the onrushing Mariano Andujar.

Napoli went close to the equalizer

five minutes into the second half but David Lopez’s header from a corner clipped the top of the crossbar.

Rafa Benitez’s side leveled in the 58th. Dries Mertens put a delightful ball over the top towards Gonzalo Higuain, who rounded Lazio goal-keeper Etrit Berisha. His attempt to get it into the empty net appeared to be going wide but Gabbiadini tapped it in.

Gabbiadini has scored five goals for Napoli since a January move from Sampdoria, where he had scored nine goals before the winter break. The match was overshadowed somewhat by Lazio fans chanting abuse about the city of Naples and its citizens. (ap)

Napoli draws 1-1 at Lazio in 1st leg of Italian Cup semi

Swansea striker Gomis collapses during Premier League match

AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth

Swansea’s Bafetimbi Gomis is carried off the pitch on a stretcher during the English Pre-mier League soccer match between Tottenham Hotspur and Swansea City at White Hart Lane stadium in London, Wednesday, March 4, 2015.

AP Photo/Alberto Saiz

Barcelona’s Luis Suarez, left, shoots to score pass Villarreal’s

goalkeeper Sergio Asenjo during a

semifinal, second leg, Copa del Rey soccer match be-tween FC Barce-

lona and Villarreal at the Madrigal stadium in Vil-larreal, Spain,

Wednesday, March 4, 2015.

Barcelona beats Villarreal 3-1, reaches Copa del Rey final

Blatter: Sanctions against racism need to be stiffer

AP Photo/Scott Heppell

Manchester Unit-ed’s Ashley Young celebrates his goal

during their English Premier League soc-

cer match between Newcastle United and

Manchester United at St James’ Park,

Newcastle, England, Wednesday, March, 4,

2015.

Man United leaves it late to beat Newcastle 1-0 in EPL

NEWCASTLE, England — Ashley Young capitalized on a dreadful error by New-castle goalkeeper Tim Krul and scored an 89th-minute goal to earn Manchester United a 1-0 win in the Premier League on Wednesday, tightening his team’s grip on fourth place. Under pressure from Wayne Rooney, Krul mis-hit a hurried clear- ance along the ground and straight to Young, who s t e e re d in a finish inside the near post.

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Welcome to Gua Gajah (Elephant Cave) which is located in west side of Bedulu countryside, Blah Batuh Sub district and Gianyar Regency. It is about 27 km from Denpasar town. This cave is built at crevasse edge from the federation of 2 rills that is called Pangkung River , where the irrigation is mixed with Petanu River flow. The federation area of two rivers is called Cam-

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Gua Gajah, Ganesa Statue, El-ephant CaveThe word of Gua Gajah is anticipated coming from the word of Lwa Gajah, the name of Buddhist Temple or hermitage for Buddhist

monk. The Gua Gajah’s name is written on Negarakeertagama pa-pyrus which is compiled by Mpu Prapanca on 1365 M. Lwa or Lwah/loh mean the river and it reflect to the meaning that the hermitage is located at Gajah River or in Air Gajah. In the year inscription 944 Saka, it is mentioned with the name of ‘ser ring Air Gajah’ that is mean-ing the Subak leader in Air Gajah. The word has mentioned that the hermitage of Lwa Gajah is located in Subak Air Gajah. There is a relief which is almost looking like the form of mountain on the entrance of this cave. It was carved many

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moNTeRReY — Top-seeded defending champion Ana Ivanovic of Serbia advanced to the quarter-finals in the Monterrey Open on Wednesday night, beating Pauline Parmentier of France 6-3, 6-2.

Ivanovic will face France’s Kris-tina Mladenovic, a 6-4, 6-2 winner over Russia’s Vera Zvonareva in the

hard-court event at Sierra Madre Tennis Club.

Second-seeded Sara Errani of Italy and eighth-seeded Magdalena Rybarikova of Slovakia also won second-round matches. Errani beat Timea Babos of Hungary 6-3, 6-3, and Rybarikova outlasted Polona Hercog of Slovenia of 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 (9). (ap)

SeRgio Perez believes Force India is “a couple of steps” behind its Formula 1 rivals after the team completed just two-and-a-half days of pre-season testing. A combina-tion of factors, including cashflow problems and delays with suppliers, meant that the VJM08 was held up in production, forcing the team to miss the first test. Mercedes paying the team to run its reserve driver Pascal Wehrlein for two days made it financiably viable for Force India to attend the second test - but only with the 2014 car.

The 2015 challenger then ar-rived on the morning of day two of the third and final test, with the team doing an impressive job to get Nico Hulkenberg out before the lunchbreak.

“We only had two days, that is the reality and we cannot hide it,” said Perez. “We are on the back foot due to limited running. But it is a promising start and we have to take the best out of the situation. “It will

take a couple of races to get where we want to be and there is a lot of work ahead of us.

“I think we are a couple of steps behind the competition.” The car ran reliably at Barcelona, with Hulkenberg and Perez completing 365 laps between them, just 15 laps shy of McLaren’s total tally across 12 days.

Perez believes there are good reasons to be optimistic despite the delays so far. “We have a clear direction on what we need to work on,” added Perez. “Aero depart-ments are really working well together on the weaknesses of this car, and that is positive.

“I have been in this situation be-fore with McLaren where it took us up to the fifth race to realise where we were and to know the numbers. “Now to do that on the second day of testing is an impressive effort from the team and now we have to work hard to get to the level that we want to be.”(net)

Memphis went ahead with a minute remaining after Courtney Lee made a pair of free throws, but Terrence Jones tied the scores with a hook shot seconds later and Gasol missed at the other end to set up the climactic sequence.

Gasol blocked James Harden’s layup with 6.4 seconds left to give the Grizzlies the ball back and he had time left for his winner. Gasol finished with 21 points. Jones had 21 points for the Rockets and Harden scored 18 in his return after a one-game suspension.

Portland’s Nicolas Batum hit a 3-pointer that forced overtime, then set up three alley-oop baskets and added a clinching 3 in the final minute to rally the Trail Blazers to a 98-93 win at the Los Angeles Clip-pers. LaMarcus Aldridge had 29 points and Batum added 20 for the Northwest Division leaders, who

have won four straight.Blazers guard Damian Lillard

had a career-high 18 rebounds to compensate for a terrible night of shooting. He missed his first 12 shots and finished with only five points. Golden State returned from a six-game road trip and struggled to shrug off a persistent Milwaukee before beating the Bucks 102-93.

Stephen Curry shook off a rough shooting night to make three straight 3-pointers early in the fourth quar-ter. He finished with 19 points and 11 assists while Draymond Green had 23 points and 12 rebounds on his 25th birthday as the Warriors improved to an NBA-best 25-2 at home. Giannis Antetokounmpo and Michael Carter-Williams scored 16 points each for the Bucks, who went winless on a four-game trip.

Cleveland’s LeBron James scored 29 points and matched a

season high with 14 assists to lead the Cavaliers to a 120-112 victory over Toronto, moving into a virtual tie with Chicago for top spot in the Central Division. Kevin Love had 22 points and 10 rebounds while Kyrie Irving scored 26 points for the Cavaliers,

Jonas Valanciunas had 26 points and 11 rebounds for the Raptors, who remain 12 games clear atop the weak Atlantic Division despite having lost six of their past seven games. San Antonio recorded the biggest home win of the season by beating Sacramento 112-85.

The Spurs, returning from a near month-long road trip as its home stadium is turned over to an annual rodeo competition, got 21 points from Kawhi Leonard while Tony Parker added 19. DeMarcus Cous-ins had 14 points for the Kings on 5-for-12 shooting. (ap)

Gasol buzzer beats lifts Grizzlies over RocketsHoUSToN — memphis’ marc gasol made a jump shot with 0.1 seconds left to give the

grizzlies a 102-100 win at Houston on Wednesday, widening their lead over the Rockets atop the NBA Southwest Division to 2-1/2 games. The victory kept memphis in touch with Western conference leader golden State, which returned home and beat milwaukee in a tight game, while other key clashes of playoff contenders saw Portland win in overtime at the los Angeles clippers and cleveland defeat Toronto.

AP Photo/Pat Sullivan

Memphis Grizzlies’ Marc Gasol (33) makes a last-second shot over Houston Rockets Ter-rence Jones (6) and James Harden to defeat the Rockets 102-100 in an NBA basketball game Wednesday, March 4, 2015, in Houston.

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Sergio Perez

Sergio Perez: Force India Formula 1 team

‘a couple of steps behind’

Top-seeded Ivanovic advances to Monterrey

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The rupiah extended the losing trend to its weakest level in many years at 13,000 from 12,975 per US dollar earlier, after signs of improvement of the US economy, chief researcher of Monex Investindo Futures Ariston Tjendra said.

The improvement of the US economy strengthened the US dollar against the major-ity of the global currencies including rupiah, he said.

“The US dollar has gained not only over rupiah but also against other currencies,” he said.

“In addition, the dollar gain was also contrib-uted by an increase in the yield on US treasury bond in the last few days as a result of excess

liquidity by the Bank of Japan , European Cen-tral Bank and other central banks,” he said.

Meanwhile, chief researcher of NH Ko-rindo Securities Indonesia Reza Priyambada said expectation of a cut in Bank Indonesia benchmark interest rate (BI rate) gave a nega-tive sentiment to the national currency.

There has been expectation of further cut in the BI rate after the countrys deflation in two successive months, January and February.

Earlier the Indonesian central bank al-ready cut its interest from 7.75 percent to 7.5 percent.

“The cut expectation of the BI rate prompted short term investors to sell their rupiah,” he said. (ant)

CANBERRA — Australia has offered Indonesia a prison swap deal in an 11th hour bid to save the lives of two Aus-tralian drug smugglers who have been transferred to an island prison where they are to be killed by firing squad within days.

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said on Thursday she made the proposal to her Indonesian counterpart Retno Marsudi who had agreed to convey it to President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo. Bishop said she had yet to hear back.

The Australian newspaper reported Bishop had offered to repatriate three convicted Indonesian drug criminals in return for the lives of the Australians, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.

The Australians are among nine for-eigners who are to be executed soon.

The proposal was made in a phone call Tuesday night after Indonesia announced the men would be transferred Wednesday

from their prison home of a decade on the resort island of Bali to their place of execution, the newspaper said.

Bishop and Prime Minister Tony Abbott were among 40 lawmakers who gathered near the front doors of Parlia-ment House for a candlelight vigil for the death row prisoners.

Abbott said he had requested another phone conversation with Widodo, a week after his last personal plea for the Aus-tralians’ lives.

“I can’t guarantee that the request will be met, but I’ve certainly put in a request because the government and the people of Indonesia need to know that this is important to us,” Abbott said.

“We respect Indonesia, we honor the friendship that we have with Indonesia, but we stand up for our values and we stand up for our citizens and these are Australian citizens in extremis,” he added. (ap)

JAKARTA - Amnesty International on Thursday issued another urgent request, rallying its members to call on the Indonesian authorities to immediately halt the plans to carry out any executions.

“One of the men has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, even though the international law could not be clearer on banning executions of those suffering from mental disabilities,” Amnesty International noted in a statement.

Several prisoners have also been convicted of drug traf-ficking, despite the offences not meeting the threshold of “most serious crimes” for which the death penalty may be imposed under the international law, it stated.

“The failure to genuinely consider clemency applications on a case-by-case basis, for those sentenced to death for drug-related crimes, is contrary to the Indonesian Constitu-tion and the international law and raises serious questions about the rule of law in Indonesia,” Research Director of Southeast Asia and Pacific Regional Office of Amnesty International Rupert Abbott noted.

Indonesia’s Attorney General has confirmed that 11 ex-ecutions of death row prisoners convicted for drug traffick-ing and murder will be carried out imminently. The prisoners include both foreigners and Indonesian nationals.

“It is deeply troubling that the Indonesian government is apparently determined to push ahead with more killings, despite showing promise to move away from the death penalty until executions resumed in 2013,” he stated.

The Indonesian government executed six people on January 19 and has announced plans to execute 14 more this year. The government has rejected all clemency pleas of death row prisoners.

“We urge President Widodo to change course imme-diately, before his early human rights record is tarnished further. The executions would also seriously undermine Indonesias credibility to speak out about human rights at the regional and global level, including saving the lives of Indonesians on death row elsewhere,” he added. (ant)

Rupiah loses more value

JAKARTA - The Indonesian currency rupiah lost more value on Thursday morn-ing to sink to the a weakest level in several years at 13,000 per US dollar.

Australia offers Indonesia prisoner swap to stop executions

Amnesty International again requests Indonesia to halt execution plans

AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim

Angelita Muxfeldt , center, a cousin of Rodrigo Gularte, Brazilian national who is on death row for smug-gling drugs into Indonesia, walks at Wijaya Pura port in Cilacap, Central Java, Indonesia, Thursday, March 5, 2015. Indonesia plans executions of nine foreign drug criminals despite clemency appeals from several of their governments.

The U.S. State Department con-demned the attack, which happened at a performing arts center in downtown Seoul as the ambassador was prepar-ing for a lecture about prospects for peace on the divided Korean Pen-insula. The U.S. Embassy later said Lippert was in stable condition after surgery at a Seoul hospital.

In a televised briefing, Chung Nam-sik of the Severance Hospital said 80 stiches were needed to close the facial wound, which was 11 centi-meters (just more than 4 inches) long and 3 centimeters (just more than 1 inch) deep. He added the cut did not affect his nerves or salivary gland.

Chung said the knife penetrated through Lippert’s left arm and dam-aged the nerves connected to his pinkie and tendons connected to his thumb. Lippert will need to be treated at the hospital for the next three or four days and may experience sensory problems in his left hand for several months, Chung said.

The attack will shock many out-siders because the United States is South Korea’s closest ally, its military protector and a big trading partner and cultural influence.

But the reported comments of the suspect, 55-year-old Kim Ki-jong, during the attack — “South and North Korea should be reunified” — touch on a deep political divide in South Korea over the still-fresh legacy of the 1950-53 Korean War, which is still technically ongoing because it ended in an armistice, not a peace

treaty. Some South Koreans blame the presence of 28,500 U.S. troops stationed in the South as a deterrent to the North for the continuing split of the Korean Peninsula along the world’s most heavily armed border — a view North Korea’s propaganda machine regularly pushes in state media.

The attack came suddenly, wit-nesses said. A knife-wielding man ran screaming up to Lippert as soup was being served for the breakfast meeting and began slashing, said Kim Young-man, spokesman for the group hosting the breakfast, the Korean Council for Reconciliation and Cooperation. A separate, unidentified witness told lo-cal media that as Lippert stood up for a handshake, the suspect wrestled the ambassador to the ground and slashed him with a knife.

Yonhap TV showed men in suits and ties piled on top of the attacker, who was dressed in a modern version of the traditional Korean hanbok, and Lippert later being rushed to a police car with a blood-soaked handkerchief pressed to his cheek. The suspect also shouted anti-war slogans after he was detained, police said. They said the knife was about 25 centimeters long (10 inches).

A direct attack on a senior U.S. official is unusual, but it represents a thread in South Korean society of sometimes extreme protests on both sides of the political divide. Regular small to medium-sized demonstra-tions, often by activists seen as profes-sional protesters, occur across Seoul,

YANGON, Myanmar — Police say they have detained more than a dozen factory workers, who were demanding higher wages and better working conditions, in a protest that follows a crackdown on students outside Myanmar’s biggest city. The detentions came when about 100 workers tried to march from their factories into Yangon late Wednesday but were blocked by police. After some workers staged a sit-in, police dragged them away.

The protest in two industrial zones near Yan-gon came as police in an area 140 kilometers (90 miles) from Yangon were faced off with hundreds

of students demanding education reforms.Since the country started moving from a

half-century of dictatorship to democracy just four years ago, the government has found itself grappling with the consequences of newfound freedoms of expression. In both cases, authorities warned they would take action if protesters tried to march to Yangon.

The Ministry of Information said Thursday that 13 workers, many of them women, had been arrested. Protesters said the number was much higher. Two journalists also were briefly held, the government said. (ap)

SINGAPORE — Singapore on Thurs-day sentenced two German men to three strokes of the cane and nine months in prison after they were found guilty of vandalizing a public train carriage. The attorney-general’s office identified the two men as 22-year-old Andreas Von Knorre and 21-year-old Elton Hinz.

They entered a Singapore train depot at night in November and sprayed paint

on a train that was parked there, accord-ing to The Straits Times and other media reports.

The duo then left Singapore, were later spotted by police in Bangkok, and even-tually were arrested in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and extradited back to Singa-pore, the reports said. They have been in jail since November, and their sentence will be backdated until then. (ap)

AP Photo/Yonhap, Kim Ju-Sung

U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert leaves a lecture hall for a hospital in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, March 5, 2015 after being attacked by a man. Lippert was attacked by a man wielding a razor and screaming that the rival Koreas should be unified, South Korean police and media said Thursday.

US envoy to SKorea in stable condition after knife attack

SEOUL, South Korea — U.S. Ambassador Mark Lippert was in stable condition after a man screaming demands for a unified North and South Korea slashed him on the face and wrist with a knife, South Korean police and U.S. officials said Thursday. Media images showed a stunned-looking Lippert examining his blood-covered left hand and holding his right hand over a cut on the right side of his face, his pink tie splat-tered with blood.

Singapore sentences 2 Germans to caning for vandalism

Myanmar police drag away protesting factory workers

often either by anti-U.S. liberals who support closer reconciliation with the North, or pro-government conserva-tive groups who support the U.S. and loathe Pyongyang.

Violence sometimes breaks out at the protests. Scuffles with police and the burning of effigies of North Kore-an and Japanese leaders are common. Demonstrators sometimes severe their own fingers, throw bodily fluids at embassies and try to self-immolate. In 2008, hundreds of thousands took to the streets to protest U.S. beef imports

after a mad cow scare in America. Both sides of the divide also protest regularly against archrival Japan, which colonized Korea in the early 20th century, over territorial and his-tory disputes.

True to form, conservative civic groups planned to hold rallies later Thursday to condemn the attack on the ambassador. The suspect in the attack appeared to be well-known in Seoul for his willingness to use violence to highlight his grievances.

A police official, speaking on

condition of anonymity because the investigation was still happen-ing, said the suspect in 2010 threw a piece of concrete at the Japanese ambassador in Seoul. South Korean media reported that Kim Ki-jong was later sentenced to a three-year suspended prison term over the attack. Kim, who was protesting Japan’s claim to small disputed islands that are occupied by South Korea, missed the ambassador with the concrete and hit his secretary instead, the reports said. (ap)

NEW YORK — Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson expects the

price of oil to remain low over the next two years because of ample

global supplies and relatively weak economic growth.

“People need to kinda settle in for a while,” Tillerson said at the company’s annual investor conference in New York.

In a presentation to inves-tors outlining its business plans through 2017, Exxon assumes a price of $55 a barrel for global crude. That’s $5 below where Brent crude, the most important global benchmark, traded on Wednesday. It’s about half of what Brent averaged between 2011 and the middle of last year.

The price of oil plunged in the second half of 2014 when it became apparent that production was outpacing global demand. The rise in U.S. production last year of 1.5 million barrels per day was the third largest in the history of the global oil industry, according to a recent report from BP. Meanwhile, weakening economic conditions in China, Japan and Europe slowed the growth in oil demand.

BP CEO Bob Dudley made remarks similar to Tillerson’s in a recent call with investors. The CEOs comments reflect an in-creasingly common industry view that new sources of oil around the globe, relatively slow growth in demand, and large amounts of crude in storage will keep a lid on prices for the foreseeable future.

“When you have that much storage out there, it takes a long time to work that off,” Dudley said.

The U.S. Energy Department reported Wednesday that U.S. oil supplies have grown to 444.4 million barrels, the highest level at least 80 years.

Tillerson cautioned that geopo-litical turmoil could unexpectedly send prices higher. But he said that if tensions calm, much more oil is ready to hit the market.

Production in Libya has been erratic in recent years because of political upheaval there. Pro-duction in Iran, once OPEC’s second largest exporter, has been depressed in recent years because of Western sanctions. Those sanc-tions could be eased if current talks over Iran’s nuclear program make progress.

“I see a lot of supply out there,” Tillerson said.

Exxon will be adding to that in the coming years, despite the low prices.

Exxon told investors Wednes-day that 16 new production proj-ects will begin producing oil and gas through 2017, helping the com-pany increase production to 4.3 million barrels per day, up from 4 million barrels per day last year.

The company said it expects to spend less to develop new projects over the next three years, but mainly because prices that its suppliers charge have fallen considerably with the price of oil — not because it is cutting back exploring for oil and gas. (ap)

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The growth target of about 7 percent, down from last year’s 7.5 percent, is in line with efforts to create a “moderately prosperous society,” said Premier Li Keqiang in a report Thursday to China’s cer-emonial national legislature.

Actual economic growth last year was 7.4 percent, the lowest since 1990.

The ruling Communist Party is in the midst of a marathon effort to guide the world’s second-largest economy to slower but more self-sustaining growth based on domes-tic consumption and services. It is

trying to replace a worn-out model driven by trade and investment in construction and heavy industry that has left China’s air and water badly polluted.

“We need to maintain a proper balance between ensuring steady growth and making structural ad-justments,” said Li in the report to the National People’s Congress.

The full session of the 2,964-member NPC usually is limited to endorsing policy decisions already made by the ruling party but serves as a platform to publicize reform initiatives and set a tone for govern-

ment work.Communist leaders say they are

comfortable with the slowdown that President Xi Jinping, invoking an American phrase, has dubbed “the new normal.”

But in a sign they are afraid of a politically dangerous spike in joblessness, they have tried to spur activity with two interest rate cuts since November and a reduction in business taxes.

Li promised to give entrepre-neurs and foreign investors a bigger role in an economy that after three decades of market-oriented reforms

still is dominated by government-owned banks, oil producers and other companies.

Beijing will cut in half the number of fields in service and manufacturing industries in which foreign investment is restricted, the premier said. He gave no details but the change has long been sought by foreign companies that face a thicket of restrictions and feel in-creasingly unwelcome.

China’s growth has declined steadily since peaking at 14.2 per-cent in 2007. Much of that reduction was intentional as Beijing tried to cool inflation and a boom in con-struction and investment that fueled worries about rising debt. Efforts to promote consumer spending have

been slower to gain traction at a time when many workers worry about their financial futures.

The International Monetary Fund says growth could decline further to 7 percent this year and a Cabinet think tank, the Develop-ment Research Center, has said it could fall as low as 6 percent next year.

China’s slowdown has had glob-al repercussions, cutting demand for iron ore and other commodi-ties that helped to drive economic booms in Brazil, Australia and other countries. But if Beijing succeeds in building up a consumer market, that could boost demand for other imports from higher-quality food to Hollywood movies. (ap)

China lowers growth target, promises to open industries

BEIJING — China announced a lower economic growth target for this year and promised to open more industries to foreign investors as it tries to make its slowing, state-dominated economy more productive.

Exxon CEO: Get used to lower oil prices

The Head of the Denpasar Gov-ernment Tourism Office, Wayan Gunawan, revealed that his party still prepared everything related to the implementation of the city tour package. According to him, on March 6 his party with relevant agencies would conduct a working visit to the field to complete a num-ber of shortcomings, especially in the attraction and location included in the city tour.

“We will make a visit to the field to make coordination with relevant agencies regarding the

things needed to be completed. If it is considered to have been suffi-cient, it means there is no problem,” he said.

A number of points still needed to be addressed before the city tour program could be launched. Ac-cording to Gunawan, the presence illegal tour guides in front of the Jagatnatha Temple area became one of the main issues. Illegal tourist guides were often complained be-cause there was impression if they forced travelers to use their services. Meanwhile, regarding the hawkers,

Gunawan said, municipal police had provided them with guidance. It was expected the hawkers would no longer disturb the comfort of visitors when the city tour program had been implemented.

Another problem that was not less important was the parking space on Jalan Gajah Mada. So far, there were still visitors who parked their vehicles in front of the shopping complex. “Many visitors are still parking their vehicles in front of the store. Later on we will discipline them,” he said.

On the other hand, two attrac-tions namely the Maospait Temple and Jro Kuta Palace were also still in need of further handling. Although the sanitation and toilet in both locations were pretty good, his party considered it necessary to make a bit revamping. Both loca-tions still needed the installation of notice board and brochures display. Not only that, both attractions were also planned to become the sales counter of souvenir for visitors.

Furthermore, Gunawan said that he was optimistic if the city tour package could be launched on target. There were still about three weeks to make corrections and re-solve the existing problems.

What about the proposal of trad-ers to include culinary delights in the city tour package? Gunawan claimed his party could not accom-modate the proposal yet. Actually the government and tourism asso-ciation had been thinking about it, but the academic studies, especially regarding the location of the culi-nary center in Denpasar, remained to be carried out.

“The issue on culinary pro-gram belongs to middle-term and long-term program. We need to explore where we can build a culinary center. We do not want to build that will only result in polemics in the community,” he said. (kmb25)

TABANAN - According to gov-ernment regulation, every veteran can be buried in memorial park. One of the memorial parks in Bali is the Pancaka Tirta located in the heart of Tabanan. Established in 1950, the capacity of this memorial park is almost fully occupied.

According to an attendant of the Pancaka Tirta memorial park, Gusti Putu Suratna, the capacity only remained for 90 tombs.

Pancaka Tirta itself is divided into three blocks, namely physical block used to bury the heroes who died during the period of 1945-1949. In this block at least 640 heroes have been buried. “Physical

block is intended for heroes who never enjoyed the independence. This block has been fully occupied and cannot be increased,” he said.

For the heroes who can enjoy the independence or those getting honor will be buried in the block of happiness. It consists of two blocks where it has been occupied by 241 heroes. ìWhen counted, it can still accommodate around 90 tombs,î he said. Although the capacity is only 90, added Suratna, not all veterans are buried in the memorial park. “Balinese people are rarely willing to be buried in memorial park be-cause they are usually buried close to the family,” he said.

Management and maintenance of the Pancaka Tirta memorial park was performed by Bali Social Services. If there was no event, it looked deserted. According to Suratna, young generation rarely made a visit to Pancaka Tirta just to have a look or ask about the history of the memorial park. The tomb of Gusti Debes was usually flocked by pilgrims on Independence Day or anniversary of particular agen-cies or schools. “No visitors or chiefly young generation come individually. The visiting pilgrims are mostly the families of the he-roes,” he said.

According to Suratna, the Pan-

caka Tirta was planned to be trans-formed into a tourist destination. Regarding the policy, the Head of Tabanan Tourism and Culture Agency, Wayan Adnyana, explained that the decision belonged to the authority of the Bali government. “Like the Margarana memorial park, the Pancaka Tirta is also man-aged by the province,” he said.

Currently the Margarana me-morial park had been made into a cultural destination. Later on the Pancaka Tirta would also be pack-aged together; according Adnyana, while the decision about this would be made by provincial government. (kmb24)

DENPASAR - Non-active zone or the area no longer used for the waste disposal at Suwung landfill actually has been strived to be re-forested. However, the effort often fails.

Secretary of the Denpasar Sani-tation and Landscaping Agency (DKP), I Dewa Gede Anom Sayoga, accompanied by Landfill Division Head, A.A. Raka Wedana, revealed the Suwung landfill was divided into active and non-active zone. All this time the non-active zone was worked on for reforestation. Gradual reforestation had been done, but it had not yielded satisfac-tory results.

The planted trees often died due to exposure to liquids of the waste and methane gas in the local area. Such substances disrupted the plant growth. Tree seedlings planted could not grow well and finally died.

Not only that, the act of wild cattle in the area also kindled a problem of its own. The cattle of people let roam around in the landfill always dam-aged the tree seedlings planted.

Raka Wedana explained that cur-rently Denpasar municipality tried to do reforestation by planting seedlings of rain tree. It was considered strong enough to survive. Reforestation plan had been drawn up. As for the non-active zone, it was already back-filled. ìThe reforestation will be done gradually,î he said.

He explained the area of Suwung landfill spread across 32.48 hectares. Not all points were used to pile up rubbish. There were 5 zones classi-fied into non-active with an area of about 10 hectares. (kmb25)

Illegal guide and parking issues hinder city tour implementationDENPASAR - Denpasar city tour package cannot be launched early March. To date, a num-

ber of preparatory issues in the field cannot be completed. Denpasar municipality targets the program can only be launched at the end of March.

Often fails, reforestation at Suwung landfill

Capacity of Pancaka Tirta memorial park almost full

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One of the memorial parks in Bali is the Pancaka Tirta located in the heart of Tabanan.

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department will not prosecute a white former police officer in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old whose death in Ferguson, Missouri, sparked weeks of protests and ignited an intense national debate over how police treat African-Americans. But the government released a scathing report that faulted the city for racial bias.

The decision Wednesday in the August 9 shooting had been expected, in part because of the high legal standard needed for a federal civil rights prosecution. Former officer Darren Wilson, who has said Brown struck him in the face and reached for his gun during a tussle, also had been cleared by a Missouri grand jury in November and later resigned from the department. The grand jury decision prompted street protests that turned violent.

Federal officials concluded there was no evidence to disprove testimony by Wilson’s, that he feared for his safety, nor was there reliable evidence that Michael Brown had his hands up in surrender when he was shot.

The Brown family lawyer, Benjamin Crump, said the family was not surprised but very disappointed, and one of Brown’s uncles, Charles Ewing, said he believed Wilson was “getting away with it.”

A separate report issued Wednesday said blacks in Ferguson are disproportionately subject to excessive police force, baseless traffic stops and citations for infractions as petty as walking down the middle of the street.

The Justice Department issued more than two dozen recommendations to improve the closely aligned police department and court system, including training officers to de-escalate confrontations and better oversight of its recruiting, hiring and promotion procedures. Federal officials on Wednesday said there were already signs of improvement.

Ferguson Mayor James Knowles III said the city had cooperated with the Justice Department and has made some changes, including a diversity training program for city employees. (ap)

And the pressure on them per-haps has never been stronger fol-lowing the arrest of Gonzalez’s stepfather, Caracas Mayor Antonio Ledezma. One of the most hardline critics of President Nicolas Maduro, Ledezma was hauled away by po-lice for allegedly plotting a coup with the U.S. The opposition calls the charge baseless, saying it is an attempt by Maduro to stamp out dissent and distract attention from an economy unraveling as quickly as is support for the revolution started 16 years ago by the late Hugo Chavez.

Shortly after the mayor’s arrest two weeks ago, attention turned to Izarra and whether family loy-alty would trump ideological zeal. Ledezma’s wife and Gonzalez’s

mother, Mitzy Capriles de Le-dezma, kicked off the speculation by saying her “beloved” son-in-law had resigned from his post in soli-darity with his wife. William Izarra, a retired air force officer and one of Chavez’s chief theorists, then shot back with a tweet saying that he and his son “will remain revolutionaries to the end of our lives.”

Izarra, a normally prolific user of social media, has said almost nothing, only tweeting that he continues working on behalf of the revolution. Repeated attempts by The Associated Press to seek com-ment from the couple through the Tourism Ministry as well as family and friends were unsuccessful.

Gonzalez and Izarra met in 2005 when he was a repeat guest on

“Hello Citizen,” the feisty anti-gov-ernment counterpoint to the “Hello President” program launched by Chavez. Gonzalez, then in her mid-20s, was a journalist on the show when Izarra, then communications minister, was invited on as a sort of Chavista punching bag to defend a new media law making it easier for the government to take critical broadcasters off the air.

A romance, kept secret at first, ensued and about six months later Gonzalez paid a visit to the home of her boss and the show’s popular anchor, Leopoldo Castillo, to tell him a marriage was planned. “We were all in tears,” Castillo recalled. “I felt obligated to let her know she was going to have a very difficult life so she better love him a lot.”

Those difficulties came quickly. In announcing her engagement with an on-air farewell, Gonzalez complained about intolerance from co-workers, said her car tires had been slashed and told of being insulted by complete strangers at a cafe. Government supporters, meanwhile, questioned whether Izarra wasn’t opening the door to a fifth column by marrying into the family of an opposition standard bearer.

The couple and their families have tried to keep the marriage out of the limelight. Ledezma, during the height of anti-Maduro protests he helped lead last year, irritably batted away questions about his relationship with his son-in-law, saying only that when they got to-gether they avoided any discussion of politics. “There’re two grandchil-dren in the middle — nobody wants to sow violence into the heart of a family,” the mayor told The Associ-ated Press. (ap)

Venezuelan mayor’s arrest casts light on unlikely marriage

CARACAS, Venezuela — She was raised by a leader of Venezuela’s opposition and made a name for herself on a popular anti-government TV show. He is the tourism minister and one of the socialist administration’s most passionate defenders. In this deeply polarized nation, where bitter politics often intrude into the most personal of arenas, the marriage of Isabel Gonzalez and Andres Izarra is as improbable as Romeo and Juliet.

US clears officer in Ferguson case, criticizes police force

AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File

FILE - In this Nov. 25, 2014 file photo, police officers watch protesters as smoke fills the streets in Ferguson, Mo. after a grand jury’s decision in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown.

Pantunan valley retains natural scenery of paddy fields which will not be inferior to tourist attrac-tions in other counties. Spreading paddy fields can be seen from the heights. Based on observation of Bali Post, the Pantunan valley is equipped with a number of sup-porting facilities, such as parking lot and concrete path.

Headman of Bangbang, Komang Sudianta, said that all this time the

Pantunan valley had been visited by many travelers. Habitually the travelers were coming by cycling starting at Pantunan valley and went down to wantilan hall of Bangbang. Although visited by quite crowded travelers, he recognized the beauti-ful valley had no management yet.

Sudianta said that after seeing the huge tourism potential of Pantu-nan valley, his party so far had been trying to propose it Bangli Culture

and Tourism Agency to be included as a tourist attraction. In fact, it could not receive an encouraging response. “It has been proposed but there is no follow up,” he said.

As getting no response, his party planned to manage it as a natural tourist attraction of Bang-bang village. He said if it could be transformed into a tourist attrac-tion, the Pantunan valley would be very suitable to be included in

the tour package of Kehen Temple and Kintamani. At Pantunan val-ley, travelers would be served with traditional rice field management activities. Sudianta said that to develop the potential, his party was ready to allocate the village al-location fund (ADD). A number of additional facilities would be built to support the Pantunan valley as a tourist attraction.

Meanwhile, the Chairman of the Bangli House, Ngakan Kutha Parwata, also from Bambang vil-lage, claimed to strongly support the development of Pantunan val-ley into a tourist attraction. More-over, after the implementation of

the new Law on village where the village would get additional fund to finance its own programs implemented all this time. Since Bangli posed a cultural village, the Pantunan valley was expected to be developed based on village tourism concept.

According to Kutha Parwata, to develop an area into a tourist attraction should be started from the village itself. “Pengelipuran village, for instance, was origi-nally developed by the village itself. Other than participation of residents, the development effort by the government is also required,” he said. (ina)

DeNpASAR — Law enforce-ment against money changers is very important to prevent the misuse by irresponsible parties. Proliferation of illegal money changers (KUPVA) will not only be detrimental to foreign travelers, but also damages the image of Bali tourism.

“Not only that, their existence is also prone to be used as a means of money laundering and terrorist financing, drug trafficking, smug-gling disguised up as if sourcing from foreign currency exchange business,” said Chief Representa-tive of Bank Indonesia (BI) for Bali

Region, Dewi Setyowati, Wednes-day (Mar. 4).

She said the money changer was one of the tourism services that contributed to the development of tourism industry in Bali. During its development, some stigmas emerged to the perpetrators of illegal non-bank money changer considered as one of the components disrupting the Bali tourism image. It happened due to the fraud committed by foreign banknote exchangers to a number of foreign travelers.

“This problem should be quickly followed up. We have signed the Principles of Understanding (PPK)

with Bali Police related to the Crime Management Coordination in the field of Payment System and Money Changer,” she said.

He also appealed to the public to use licensed money changer when making transactions. In addition, to the Association of Foreign Ex-change (APVA) was also expected to encourage the illegal traders to apply for a money changer permit to the monetary authority, namely Bank Indonesia, so that the money changer business would not become a bogey and scapegoat that could tarnish the image of Bali tourism.

“Control against the unlicensed

money changer is also an important part to elevate the dignity of the nation by encouraging and sup-porting the efforts to promote the transaction with rupiah,” he said. Such an effort, he added, had been in accordance with the mandate of the Law No.7/2011 on Rupiah.

As has been known, the de-velopment of licensed non-bank money changer in Bali Province has increased quite rapidly. From the latest data owned by the Bank Indonesia for Bali Region, the total licensed money changer in Bali in 2014 reached 526 service offices, where 117 offices belonged to the

headquarters and scattered through-out the Bali Province. The largest distribution occurred in Badung, Denpasar City and Gianyar, with respective percentage of about 67 percent, 21 percent and 9 percent. Total assets of the licensed non-bank money changer in Bali in 2013 reached IDR 209.62 billion, or grew by 9.59 percent compared to the previous year, namely IDR 191.28 billion. In terms of volume, the average of total turnover (value of purchases and sales) of foreign banknotes and Traveler’s Check (TC) in 2014 reached IDR 2.31 trillion per month. (kmb27)

Illegal money changers tarnish the image of Bali tourism

SINGARAJA — Coral reefs in the water of Menjangan Is-land were touched again. Not half-heartedly, local residents found a number of damaged coral reefs due to a bomb. Target of the bombing was on the Sandy Slopes diving spot, exactly in the north of the Post I of Menjangan Island. The bombing was not the first time harming the residents and tourist guides on Menjangan Island. They have repeatedly found the damaged coral reefs as the impact of bombing alleged to seek unilateral advantage.

A tour guide, Nyoman Suntara, suspected the bombing action was committed secretly by cer-tain elements on Tuesday (Mar. 3) considering that most income

of communities at Pejarakan vil-lage, Sumberklampok village and surrounding areas sourced from diving and snorkeling excursion. He alleged the bombing was com-mitted by throwing bomb from a distance of three to five meters. Local people became furious and expected a further investigation to find out the bomber. “Coral reefs are destroyed. Some are scattered and broken into pieces. We expect this may not happen again and must be investigated thoroughly,” he said, Wednesday (Mar. 4).

According to Suntara, who previously participated in the act ion of Menjangan Is land Care, found several species of ornamental fish which inciden-tally living in coral reefs floating

dead due to fish bombing. Ironi-cally, the coral reefs around the island did not grow within one to two years but within decades to produce beautiful coral reefs. “We deeply regret the bombing against the coral reefs and fish. It was the second time happened af-ter the incident on Tuesday (Feb. 10) and Wednesday (Feb. 11), and seeing the incident, the commu-nity must unite,” he said.

He added that after the bomb-ing of coral reef and fish, some diving and snorkeling activities could still run normally. The entire tour guides were already re-educated to keep the underwa-ter ecosystem. “Tour guides took travelers to locations that were not hit by the bombing. It was

done by force so that travelers would not be disappointed when diving,” he added.

Meanwhile, the Head of West Bali National Park (TNBB), Tedi Sutedi, explained that after hearing the incident he asked the officers to see the situation in the field including the location of the reef bombing. “Sorry, I must check it first with staff in the field because we have not received any reports from the field,” said Tedi via text message of his cellular phone.

At separate location, the Chief of Buleleng Water Police, Putu Aryana, justified the bombing of the coral reefs when asked for his confirmation. It was alleged to happen at 6 o’clock p.m.; right

after tour guides delivered their guests back to boat landing dock. Allegedly the bomber came in from the Bangsring Port, Banyu-wangi, East Java. Responding to such incident, his party would tighten the security on Menjan-gan Island at some central posts having excellent potential of coral reefs.

“We will deploy our personnel at Post I pursuant to the instruc-tions of the Chief of County Police for one month until the culprit is arrested. At that time, national park officers were ac-tually on duty at Post I but the fish bomb was not audible from the mainland, and could only be heard by people who were div-ing,” he said. (kmb34)

Again, coral reef on Menjangan Island damaged by fish bomb

Pantunan valley, a tourism potential worth managing

BANGlI — pantunan valley located at Bangbang village, Tembuku subdistrict, has quite fascinating natural potential. The overlay of verdant paddy fields between high cliffs makes each eye of the beholder hooked. Although it has been visited by many travelers, the beauty of the valley on offer seems to have not been managed at all. Actually, when managed properly, it is not impossible to increase the regionally generated revenue (pAD) of the tourism sector.

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According to Made Tromat, one of the water sport owners, the congestion is due to the lack of parking space for travelers visit-ing Tanjung Benoa. “Yes, there is no parking lot. Right now, we’re still talking about the problem to the village head,” said the man who id also the Chairman of the Badung Marine

Tourism Association (Gahawis-ri).Meanwhile, the Chief of Tan-jung Benoa Village, Made Wijaya, confirmed that since two days ago, vehicles carrying tourists have been forced to occupy the main road leading to water sport attrac-tion. “Tanjung Benoa no longer has a parking lot, so that we use the road section. The land formerly used for parking space of vehicles, such as buses, has been taken back by its landowner. So, it kindles traffic jam because the narrow road is also used for parking large vehicles,” he said.

While admitting that such con-ditions could potentially tarnish the image of Badung tourism, he said the village could not prohibit the parking of vehicles on roadside because it was needed to provide parking space required by visitors. “We cannot prohibit parking on the street because we are still confused to look for a parking lot for visitors.

DENPASAR - The use of il-licit drugs results in the death of an estimated 40 to 50 people in Indonesia due to consuming drugs every material loss reaches around IDR 48 trillion each year as well. This has led President Jokowi to beat the drums of war against drug trafficking.

Turning to Bali, to the Head of the Bali National Narcotics Agency (BNNP), I Gusti Ketut Budiartha, says that his office does not have clear data on the number of drug-related deaths on the island. Victims’ families don’t share this information so that the precise number is unknown. “The population is hidden and concealed so that we cannot record easily,” he said.

At the same time,, the number

of drug-related criminal cases in Bali fluctuates from year to year. In 2010, police handled 790 cases,

in 2011 (887 cases), in 2012 (866 cases) and in 2013 (842 cases plus 3 cases handled by the BNNP Bali). In 2014 police handled 762 cases plus 1 case from the BNNP Bali.

“Anyone such as private em-ployees, civil servants, police, military, officials, students and others can be afflicted. Without prevention, our generation will lose many people due to the effects of drugs,” he said.

To save the future generation from the hazards of drugs, his of-fice continues to take aggressive preventive measures.

Prevention has been focused on providing school and college

students as well as the general public with the mindset to reject illicit drug use and resist traffick-ing. Efforts also seek to create and educational and work environment free from such drugs as marijuana, crystal meth, ecstasy and heroin. Efforts have also been made to pro-vide rehabilitation for those who had been affected and to intensify regular reporting of drug addicts.

Efforts to combat drug use and addiction have included actions related to the import, production and distribution of drugs. Law enforcement against suspected drug rings has also increased. Ef-forts have also gone to uncover-ing money laundering related to narcotics crimes.

“Necessarily, we must fight it together. Do not be embarrassed to

report if there are family members and relatives having contact with drugs,” said this one-star general.

A university teacher, Dr. I Made Alit Mariana, revealed that in Bali the number of students getting in-volved with drugs reaches around 15-35 percent. “It has been quite high and is a red light,” he added. Alit, who is also Chairman of the LPMP Bali, noted that the shame associated with drugs in the com-munity meant that the data on fa-talities remained hidden. However, if there was shame about having an addicted family member, preven-tion could be surely maximal. “We must drive the shame to prevent it from the beginning. So, it will not be shameful after the incident. Such an effort should we push together,” he said. (rah)

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In recent days, Jalan Pratama, Tajung Benoa has been crowded with traffic jams. Tourist vehicles, are crowded all along the road leading to the sport areas in the region.

Tanjung Benoa has no parking lotMANGUPURA – In recent

days, Jalan Pratama, Tajung Benoa has been crowded with traffic jams. Tourist vehicles, are crowded all along the road leading to the sport areas in the region. The surprising reason for this is that the tour-ist destination in the richest county in Bali no longer has a parking lot.

Data on drug fatalities in Bali hard to collect

If banned, they can divert their visit to another place. If that happens obviously we will lose out, let alone 80 percent of the entrepreneurs are local communities,” he explained.

There were plans to seek to use public land owned by Bali Prov-ince as a parking area. He was opti-mistic that local government would grant the request. “I am optimistic

that the Bali government will pro-vide the land to be managed by society, especially as it concerns the image of Bali,” he said.

He was worried of the results if his party could not find a solution by May. “Just imagine, on normal days there are 150 travelers mak-ing a visit. During high season, it can be multiplied. Without doubt,

the congestion will be getting worse,” he said.

He hoped the regent of Badung and related agencies, namely the Tourism Agency would not keep silent when seeing such condition, and immediately intervene to find solutions to the problems faced by communities in South Badung.

“Hopefully, the regent and

tourism agency can find a solution because if travelers complain about the situation, Badung tourism will automatically be tarnished,” he concluded. (kmb27)

Yet two sombre notes cast shad-ows across the Paris opening: the February 27 death of John Fairch-ild, the American chief editor of the fashion world’s bible, Women’s Wear Daily, between 1960-1997; and the death on Monday of Bettina, a star model of the 1950s.

The first day of the catwalk shows saw the first outing by brand Each x Other, founded by thirtysomething Franco-Swedish duo Ilan Delouis and Jenny Man-nerheim and joined by new designer Masha Gard.

Marine, black and cream domi-nated their collection which drew inspiration from men’s lines in tennis stripes, tailored pants and leather.

“We wanted to show that men’s clothes can be transformed into something else. We give it an al-lure and elegance with femininity,” Delouis explained backstage.

The male side “is part of the code of Each x Other, it’s about the mix, the blend -- our logo is an X, which is the meeting of art, fashion and music,” he added.

Previously, the brand showed its collections in the “Designers Apartment”, a showroom organised by the fashion week’s organising body, the Federation Francaise de la Couture. The space, which will be open for six days from Friday, promotes young stylists.

Paris’s mayor, Anne Hidalgo, also sought to shine the spotlight on upcoming talent by visiting the Duperre School, one of the city’s premiere design institutions. The state-run establishment each year trains 500 students in fashion, tex-tiles and graphic design.

Hidalgo said Paris’ schools were standing up to the stiff competi-tion posed by better-funded rivals Central Saint Martins in London

and Parsons in New York because the French capital managed to “conserve the artistic trade skills related to the luxury sector, such as embroidery and tapestry”.

Responding to a question about New York investing 15 million eu-ros ($17 million) in the city’s fash-ion trade, she said: “If New York is investing so much in fashion today, it’s because its artistic workshops have disappeared.”

Paris, she added, had the good fortune to be home to tuition-free schools that allow young students to learn “not according to their par-ents’ revenues, but really by their own talent and drive”.

Hidalgo was accompanied by two graduates from the school, Bouchra Jarrar, who now has her own fashion house of the same name, and Guillaume Lemiel, de-signer for the brand The Kooples.

Still, Hidalgo acknowledged,

MILAN — The final day of Milan Fashion Show highlights of Armani. Armani, who celebrates 40 years of his fashion brand this year, was a found-ing protagonist of the Milan fashion scene, and has become a global fash-ion watchword by creating enduring looks, with a focus on detailing and elegance, not flash-by trends.

Armani is the fashion world’s ambassador to the world Expo 2015 opening May 1 in Milan, using his renown to promote the event to the fashion crowd. He is currently work-ing on a retrospective exhibit to open on the eve of the world’s fair open-ing, along with a runway show of his greatest hits.

Sometimes Armani comes up with something so new, refreshing and in-ventive that not even he knows what to call it. So it was with a new trouser silhouette that on top resembled a sweeping skirt in the shape of a pair of tulip petals, then melded seamlessly into a tight-fitting pant-leg. They were paired with pretty swing coats, some

decorated crystals, or a sloping high-collar sweater that had the effect of a contemporary casual poncho.

Pants were so much on Armani’s mind that of the more than 80 looks he sent out, fewer than 10 were skirts or dresses. A velvet evening version working a skirt into the trouser was paired with tops of swirling chiffon

AP Photo/Luca Bruno

Models wear creations for Giorgio Armani women’s Fall-Winter 2015-16 collection, part of Milan Fashion Week, unveiled in Milan, Italy, Monday, March 2, 2015.

AP Photo/Thibault Camus

A model wears a creation for Etam’s

ready-to-wear fall-win-ter 2015/2016 fashion

collection presented in Paris, France, Tuesday,

March 3, 2015.

Young designers shine at start of Paris Fashion Week

PARIS - Paris Fashion Week on Tuesday unleashed its first day of stilleto- and swagger-filled shows with a nod to young designers coming up to fill the creative ranks. It was the French capital’s turn to reveal its women’s 2015-2016 autumn-winter collections after the shows in New York, London and Milan.

“Paris was kind of slumbering a few years ago, thinking it could live off its legacy as the capital of fashion”.

Milan, London and New York have “worked very, very hard with

professionals, in terms of com-munication, to build their fashion weeks up to a level that concerned us. “We are now not only fighting back but also understanding what our strengths are.” (afp)

Armani creates new winter trousers with tulip flairor cropped jackets, while pants with a cummerbund waistline highlighted the crystal-dotted bustier. The looks were complemented by shimmery, but not metallic, long-fringe shawls.

For Armani, the black evening pant is the season’s must-have. But when the occasion calls for a dress, there were long printed slip dresses with a diagonal band of black velvet sloping down to the hem and an eye-catching strapless chiffon dresses in red or cotton-candy pink with ruffled detailing at the bodice.

Giorgio Armani’s looks for next winter were infused with a gentleness inspired by paintings by Chagall, whose work was shown in a retrospec-tive that closed recently in Milan.

While many runways favored dra-matic geographic lines, Armani chose a softer optical effect, a bleeding of one color into the other that the designer said was a nod to Chagall. The print of choice was a blur or color, giving the effect nearly of an aurora borealis of red, pink, black and gray.

A Chagall work inspired another detail, pretty feminine collars sugges-tive of a French school girl. Rounded or slightly squared, the collars could also be worn alone, as in unattached to a shirt or coat, as an accessory.

“There is a painting by Chagall with one or two women with big white collars,” Armani said. “I was hit by this sense of innocence.” (ap)

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EvEry Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is con-sidered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

Balinese Temple Ceremony

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Aficionados of Japanese delights will love the ‘Sushi & Sashimi Experience,’ which takes place every Thursday evening from 6.30 pm at ‘KO Restaurant, Teppa-nyaki and Cocktail Lounge. Here, diners can relish a fabulous spread, featuring 15 different varieties of colourful sushi and sashimi, as well as innovative rolls, makis and niguiris, freshly prepared by the Master Chef at the sushi counter. This mouth-watering experience is priced at Rp 480,000++ per person including soft drinks and juices, or Rp 730.000++ per person including free flow sake cocktails or house wines, or Rp 930.000++ per person including free flow sake cocktails, house wines, and hot or cold sake. Rp 190.000++ for children under 12 years old.

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New dining delights at InterContinental Bali

JIMBArAN - InterContinental Bali resort is pleased to introduce some exciting new food & beverage promotions at three of the resort’s best-known restaurants: KO restaurant, Teppanyaki and Cocktail Lounge, Bella Cucina, and Jimbaran Gardens.

dining venue – KO Restaurant, Tep-panyaki and Cocktail Lounge has long been hailed one of Bali’s best Japanese restaurants, renowned for its authentic, fresh cuisine. Balinese architecture and Japanese aesthetics combine to create a contemporary dining environment en-hanced by the use of bold colours, textured effects, open-air walkways and enchanting Japanese gardens. KO rests within its own dedicated wing, with two entrances, mak-ing it easily accessible to both in-house and outside guests.

Meanwhile, every Friday from 6.30 pm at ‘Bella – the Resort’s signature Italian fine-dining restaurant – guests and visitors can enjoy the ‘Il Mercato’ experience, fea-turing Italian-style fresh market produce. Diners are invited to walk through a

themed mini-market and view a tempting variety of edible delights ranging from salads and vegetables to cold cuts, pastas, seafood, meat, and a large selection of desserts, before choosing what they would like for dinner and placing their orders. Each meal will be then be prepared in accordance with the Chef’s recipes of the day and enjoyed to the classical strains of the Quartet Band. This very special promo-tion is priced at Rp 560.000++ per person including free flow soft drinks and juices, or Rp 740.000++ per person including free flow soft drinks, juices, house wines, and selected cocktails. Rp 225.000++ for children under 12 years old.

Bella Cucina, meaning ‘beautiful kitchen,’ is renowned for its authentic Italian cuisine, and headed-up by an Italian

Executive Chef passionate about classic Italian recipes and regional specialties, created here with modern presentation and innovative twists. The restaurant comprises an opulent indoor dining room with a lively open-kitchen concept, the private Surya dining room, and a charming outdoor terrace extending to tropical gardens.

Finally, the ‘Jimbaran Seafood Night’ takes place every Sunday evening from 6.30 pm. For this promotion, the chefs at the Resort’s ‘Jimbaran Gardens’ restaurant will prepare and grill the catch of the day, a fresh seafood feast, which can be enjoyed along with a performance of the traditional fisherman’s dance. The dance depicts the daily life and work of a fisherman, evident in every graceful movement of the dancer’s body and hands, re-enacting activities such as rowing and the casting of the nets. The Jimbaran Seafood Night is priced at Rp 520.000++ per person including free flow soft drinks and juices, or Rp 720.000++ per person including free flow soft drinks, juices, house wines, and selected cocktails. Rp 225.000++ for children under 12 years old.

Located beside the Resort’s Main Pool, and incorporating indoor and outdoor dining options, Jimbaran Gardens offers a relaxed alfresco seaside setting, with casual all-day dining accompanied by stunning views across the beach and Jimbaran Bay. The restaurant is housed in a traditional, open-sided Balinese-style dining pavil-ion and gently cooled by sea breezes. Alternatively, two elevated ‘Bale Bengong’ daydreaming pavilions offer privacy for families and groups.

One of the lands owned by the briber of the judge of the Constitutional Court Akil Mochtar is located along the Campuan River reaching approximately two hectares. Nevertheless, it has indeed become the target of tourist accommoda-tion in Ubud since long time ago. So far, many investors are still allegedly attempt to make the Campuan River area the target of money laun-dering.

As observation made on Wednesday (Mar. 4), dozens of hotels and villas were seen to be in a row in the west and the east of Campuan River. Only in the middle part denoting the Campuhan Hill was still left as a gorgeous green space. So,

the row of the accommodation along the river bank was specifically designed to enjoy the beauty of the Campuan River flow and green hills.

“These hotels and villas have been long es-tablished. We just preserve the Campuan Hill as tourist attraction, particularly by the community of Ubud in order to be far away from the touch of investment,” said Chairman of the Indonesia Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) of Gianyar, Tjokorda A. Ichro, Wednesday (Mar. 4).

He added the hotels and villas perched along the region were still predominantly owned by the people of Ubud. However, in keeping with the passage of time, more and more investors

Existence of Bali cattle in Gianyar continues to grow. In 2014, the population of Bali cattle has increased to three hundred heads. Even, the livestock sector in Gianyar places Bali cattle as livestock in the first rank. It is then followed by pigs, chickens, ducks and various other animals.

Bali cattle in Gianyar are developed by means of mating injection. By Artificial Insemination (AI), 35 technical personnel owned by the Gianyar Livestock Agency spreading across the seven subdistricts help the breeding of farmers at nook and cranny of villages. As the record in 2014, the number of Bali cattle population reached 46,861 heads. In contrast to the year 2013, it only amounted to some 46,539 heads.

The increase of cattle population in Gianyar in 2014 occurred due to the presence of the integrated farming system (Simantri) program. Within this program, the county was obliged to support the Simantri by providing a companion of 25 cattle. However, in 2015 the special assistance of cattle was not realized due to the rationalization of re-gional budget of Gianyar.

The cattle imposed with a restriction for the sale to outside the region were raised by 7,232 farmers. In addition, the cattle were also devel-oped by 315 groups in Gianyar. “Group members tend to raise female cows,” said the Head of Gianyar Livestock, Fisheries and Maritime Affairs, I Made Raka, Wednesday (Mar. 4).

Most Bali cattle raised in Gianyar were intended for development or fattening. Their cattle were no longer used to plow paddy field but currently treated very distinctively. They had a pity on using the cattle to plow, but preferred to use tractor because it was more practical.

Raka also recognized if the demand for Bali cattle from outside Bali regions was quite a lot. However, since there was a prohibition and the excellence of Bali cattle, the sales of Bali cattle to the regions outside Bali was restricted. (dar)

Campuan River area

Wanted by people for money laundering practice

Gianyar Ubud tourist area indeed becomes a honey to the world of tourism. It is visible from

millions of travelers making a visit to Ubud each day. On the other hand, this phenomenon also invites high willingness of people to invest in the area. Even, sometimes it leads to the practice of money laundering as committed by Tubagus Chaeri Wardana aka Wawan.

were trying to invest in Ubud area, beyond the region of Campuan River. “When we observe, the land conversion into hotels and villas has rampantly occurred in Ubud, and some of them are established by investors,” he added.

As previously reported, the num-ber of assets owned by the suspect of money laundering, Tubagus Chaeri Wardana aka Wawan in Ubud subdis-trict, Gianyar, had been confiscated by the Corruption Eradication Com-mission. The land assets with nine certificates of ownership as released by the Commission would be used to build a hotel in the Ubud tourist area. Even, to build a hotel, he also acquired the land for the view of his hotel. For this land acquisition,

Wawan directly paid the land in cash to landowners.

In Ubud Wawan has more than two hectares of land, but separated by the streams of Campuan River. To build the tourist accommodation, Wawan has also submitted the permission to Gianyar government. As consequence, the officials of the Gianyar Licens-ing Office became the investigation target of the Commission on January 23, 2014.

As planned, the hotel accommoda-tion to be built by Wawan will use the entry from Jalan Bisma at Subak Se-mujan, Ubud. Precisely, it is adjacent to Villa Bucu View. Meanwhile, in the west of Campuan River, the plantation land and paddy fields will become the view of the hotel. (kmb35)

Bali cattle in GianyarNo longer used to plow, population raises to 300 heads each year

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Balinese cows are seen in the picture

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“In terms of contribution given by Australian tourist, it reached 28 percent, it’s big enough,” said the Head of BPS Bali, Panusunan Siregar. Panusunan added that based on previous experience the visit of Australian tourists would usually decrease again in February. Final data could only be confirmed next month. He was

optimistic that the decline rate would not be much different than in previous years.

He was responding to specula-tion that the execution of the Bali Nine duo would have an impact on the Australian tourist visit to Bali. This was in the face of comments by the Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop and Australian Prime

Minister Tony Abbott calling for a boycott of Indonesia, including Bali.

“Every February, Australian tourists tend to decrease compared to January. So that’s why I want to know how the actual figures of February will look like. If it shows a mediocre decline, it suggests no impact. From the point of view

of the people, they actually do not seem care about the ban,” he explained.

Overall, foreign tourist ar-rivals in Bali reached 301,748 people in January. This number represented an increase of 8.05 percent compared to last year. A total of 10 countries contributed significant numbers of travelers to Bali, namely Australia, China, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, the UK, the USA, Taiwan and India.

“Of these 10 countries, com-pared to the previous year, India

experienced the greatest increase namely 28.65 percent going from 5,678 to 7,305 travelers. Malay-sia showed the highest decrease 11.80 percent going from 15,656 people to 13,809 people,” he said. (kmb32)

Tourists spend time at Tanjung Benoa Beach

recently. Australian tour-ists are still ranked first

in terms of number of ar-rivals in Bali. The Central Statistics Agency (BPS)

of Bali noted that Austra-lian tourist visit reached

85,059 people in January.

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Australians still dominates tourist visitors to Bali

DENPASAR - Australian tourists are still ranked first in terms of number of arrivals in Bali. The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of Bali noted that Australian tourist visit reached 85,059 people in January. This number increased by 19.32 percent over January 2014 when 71,288 Aus-tralians came. At the same time, the number represented fewer people compared to December 2014 when 96,854 people came from Australia.

NEW YORK — Leonardo Di-Caprio is partnering with Netflix for a series of documentaries he will produce for the streaming service.

Netflix announced Wednesday that DiCaprio and his production company, Appian Way, have signed a first-look deal with Netflix for nonfiction proj-ects. The company says DiCaprio

and Netflix will seek to develop and acquire documentaries and docuseries “with partial focus on environmental and conservation themes.”

DiCaprio teamed with Netflix last year to release the Oscar-nom-inated documentary “Virunga.” In a statement, DiCaprio said “Virunga” ‘’sparked a shared vision” between

him and the streaming service.The deal adds to a growing stable

of Hollywood talent Netflix has lured to its expanding original film operations. Along with an earlier deal with Adam Sandler, Netflix recently acquired “Beasts of No Na-tion” by “True Detective” director Cary Fukunaga. (ap)

Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures said Wednesday the “Die Hard” star will star opposite Elizabeth Marvel in the story of a murderous fan united with her beloved romance novelist.

William Goldman has once again adapted the book. His previous film adaptation, based on Stephen King’s celebrated novel, was di-rected by Rob Reiner and released in 1990, starring James Caan and Kathy Bates, who won an Academy Award.

Dates and a theater will be an-

nounced later.The action takes place in a

lonely, snow-encased town. While driving on an icy road, novelist Paul Sheldon skids, crashes and is pinned in his car, with his new manuscript tucked away in his nearby briefcase.

Annie Wilkes, his so-called No. 1 fan in the world, finds him, frees him from the car and takes him to her home to nurse him back to health. All is fine until she reads the new book in which the author has killed off a heroine named Misery

who has appeared in a string of romances.

Sheldon is faced with his biggest challenge ever — to revive Misery and write another novel. In the process, he must figure out how to outsmart his captor and escape.

The play will be directed by Will Frears.

Marvel’s other Broadway credits include “Picnic” and “Other Desert Cities.”

King hasn’t had much success on Broadway, with his “Carrie” in 1988 considered a legendary flop. (ap)

UNITED NATIONS — Jane Fonda said Wednesday the male power structure that has dominated the world for centuries has been wounded — “but there’s nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast.”

The actress and women’s rights activist spoke in a telephone inter-view ahead of U.N. meetings next week to assess progress toward women’s equality. She said “the most intractable problem that hu-manity faces is the problem of pa-triarchy,” which she partly blames for the rise in terrorism and the destruction of the environment.

She said patriarchy is very en-trenched, which has made it dif-ficult for women fighting for real equality to challenge it, though she says women have made inroads.

Male power is “wounded now but there’s nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, thrashing about, flailing its tail with the barbs on it, and a lot of people are really getting hurt badly,” she said.

Fonda said this challenge to male power has not only had an impact on terrorism and the environment but has affected women demanding equality because “there’s a lot of guys who won’t stand for it.”

“So we have to be constantly reminded of how far we’ve come and how far we still have to go,” she said, and that’s why she will be at the U.N. on March 12 to help launch a campaign by the women’s rights group Equality Now urging all governments to repeal or amend all gender discrimination laws.

Fonda, a longtime supporter of the group, said just over half the laws it highlighted in 1999 have been revised, appealed or amended, but there is no excuse for less than 100 percent.

Changing laws “is a huge step forward” and helps empower vic-tims, she said, but to achieve equal-ity many other things are needed as well.

“You need women elected to office, you need movements in the streets, you need social media, you

need every single form of social protest and speaking truth to power that’s possible,” Fonda said.

And a woman leader must lead “as a woman and not as a man in skirts” who thinks she needs to prove she’s not weak, she said.

Her value “is to bring her wom-an-ness to her leadership style” which means empathy, compassion and “someone whose head and heart are not bifurcated,” she said.

Fonda said it took her a long time to understand what the women’s movement was about and what feminism meant, and she will be fighting for equality for the rest of her life not only with Equality Now but with V-Day, a movement to stop violence against women, and the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential which she founded in 2001.

But Fonda hasn’t given up on acting: She will be starring in director Paolo Sorrentino’s movie “Youth in Venice” with Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel, which will be released this year. And she said she’s gearing up for a second season of the Netflix series “Grace and Frankie” with Lily Tomlin. (ap)

DiCaprio partners with Netflix for series of documentaries

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Bruce Willis to star on Broadway in play of King’s ‘Misery’

NEW YORK — Bruce Willis will make his Broadway debut this fall in a tale of torture and suspense — a stage adaptation of Stephen King’s novel “Misery.”

Jane Fonda says male domination of world has been ‘wounded’ Man United

leaves it late to beat Newcastle 1-0 in EPL

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